Kafka's monkey and other phantoms of Africa / Seloua Luste Boulbina ; translated by Laura E. Hengehold ; foreword by Achille Mbembe.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Singe de Kafka et autres propos sur la colonie. English
Main Author: Luste Boulbina, Seloua, 1957- (Author)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2019.
Series:World philosophies.
Subjects:
Colonization > Philosophy.
Postcolonialism > Philosophy.
Political science > Philosophy.
Physical Description:xlii, 332 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Thinking the colony
  • Kafka's monkey and other reflections on the colony
  • With respect to Kafka's monkey
  • Challenging historical culture
  • The colony, mirage, and historical reality
  • Africa and its phantoms: writing the afterward
  • Saving one's skin
  • History, an interior architecture
  • Language, an internal politics
  • Sexed space and gender unveiled
  • Having a good ear
  • From floating territories to disorientation.