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  title info:
    title: Out of the dark night
    sub title: essays on decolonization
  title info:
    title: Sortir de la grande nuit. English
  name:
    name part: Mbembe, Achille
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Ginsburg, Daniela
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: fre
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 269 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 European and African thought to provide a powerful assessment of common ways of writing and thinking about Africa. Mbembe criticizes the blinders of European intellectuals, analyzing France's failure to heed postcolonial critiques of ongoing exclusions masked by pretenses of universalism. He develops a new reading of African modernity that further develops the notion of Afropolitanism, a novel way of being in the world that has arisen in decolonized Africa in the midst of both destruction and the birth of new societies, making the case for South Africa as its laboratory. Out of the Great Darkness reconstructs critical theory's historical and philosophical framework for understanding colonial and postcolonial events and expands our sense of the futures made possible by decolonization.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Planetary entanglement -- Dis-enclosure -- Proximity without reciprocity -- Imperial winter -- The house without keys -- Afropolitanism -- Epilogue: the politics of the future world.
  note: Achille Mbembe ; [translated by Daniela Ginsburg].
  note: Originally published in French as: Sortir de la grande nuit, copyright © 2010, Editions La Découverte.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    topic: Postcolonialism
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1960-
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 1960-
  classification: JQ1875 .M42313 2021
  classification: 325.3096
  identifier: 9780231160285
  identifier: 0231160283
  identifier: 9780231500593
  identifier: 0231500599
  identifier: 2019006038
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190206
    record change date: 20210422111101.0
    record identifier: in00004349071