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Achille Mbembe / Oliver Coates.
Van Pelt Library B5419.M34 C53 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coates, Oliver, 1984- author.
- Series:
- Routledge critical thinkers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mbembe, Achille, 1957-.
- Mbembe, Achille.
- Philosophers--Africa--Biography.
- Philosophers.
- Historians--Africa--Biography.
- Historians.
- Philosophy, African.
- Postcolonialism.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 206 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Achille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy, who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, and postcolonial studies. Oliver Coates introduces key concepts within Mbembe's thought in relation to African history, literature, and philosophy. This accessible guide: - Considers examples from African literature in Arabic, English, French, and Yoruba, and shows the relevance of Mbembe's thought beyond Anglophone writing; - Explores how Mbembe's work relates to contemporary global events, and charts Mbembe's intellectual development between Cameroon, France, and the U.S.A.; - Discusses core concepts from across Mbembe's career, including the positioning of Africa within Western and Afrodiasporic thought, the colony, postcolony, necropolitics, decolonization, Afropolitanism, technology, and the environment; - Reveals Mbembe's engagement with key global events including the #RhodesMustFall and #BlackLivesMatter movements, and the call for the restitution of African objects in Western museums. Offering a clear and accessible route into what can be a complex area, this book shows the significance of Mbembe's thought across literature, history, postcolonial studies, gender studies and critical theory"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Race, Africa, and questions of knowledge
- The colony
- The postcolony
- The nocturnal sphere and necropolitics
- Out of the dark night : decolonization and the new human
- Afropolitanism
- Technology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Coates, Oliver, 1984- Achille Mbembe
- ISBN:
- 9780367192693
- 0367192691
- 9780367193003
- 0367193000
- OCLC:
- 1441717677
- Publisher Number:
- 90100792435
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