De la postcolonie

by Achille Mbembe

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 his well-known 1992 article "Provisional Notes on the Postcolony," in which he developed...

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