Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization

by Achille Mbembe

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Achille Mbembe is one of the world's most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities and the possibilities emerging in its wake. In Out of the Great Darkness, he offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that points toward new liberatory models of community and humanity.

In a nuanced consideration of the African experience, Mbembe makes sweeping interventions into debates about citizenship, identity, democracy, and modernity. He eruditely ranges across...Read more
  • ISBN10 0231500599
  • ISBN13 9780231500593
  • Publish Date 19 January 2021
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Columbia University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Language English