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On the Postcolony

by Achille Mbembe

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Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection of essays—his first book to be published in English—develops and extends debates first ignited by ...

First published: 2001 283 pages ISBN: 9780520917538
Category
Philosophy
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Recommended
Author works
2
Language
eng
Subjects
History

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