Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa - (World Philosophies) by Seloua Luste Boulbina (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>1. This book important primary source by a woman philosopher.</p> <p>2. Seloua Luste Boulbina takes on the problematic concept of colony and all of its subjective, sexual, political, and social implications.</p> <p>3. Boulbina's book builds on the work of traditional, well-known European philosophers. </p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Even though many of France's former colonies became independent over fifty years ago, the concept of colony and who was affected by colonialism remain problematic in French culture today. Seloua Luste Boulbina, an Algerian-French philosopher and political theorist, shows how the colony's structures persist in the subjectivity, sexuality, and bodily experience of human beings who were once brought together through force. This text, which combines two works by Luste Boulbina, shows how France and its former colonies are haunted by power relations that are supposedly old history, but whose effects on knowledge, imagination, emotional habits, and public controversies have persisted vividly into the present. Luste Boulbina draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, and Édouard Glissant to build a challenging, original, and intercultural philosophy that responds to blind spots of inherited political and social culture. <i>Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa</i> offers unique insights into how issues of migration, religious and ethnic identity, and postcolonial history affect contemporary France and beyond.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Seloua Luste Boulbina teaches political theory at the Institut d'Études Politique in Paris and is a research associate and PhD supervisor at the Laboratoire de changement social et politique (Laboratory for Social and Political Change) at l'Université Paris VII. She is the author and editor of many books, including <em>Les Arabes peuvent-ils parler? </em>(Can the Arabs Speak?) and <em>Grands Travaux à Paris </em>(The Great Urban Projects of Paris).</p> <p>Laura Hengehold is Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. Her previous books include <i>The Body Problematic: Kant and Foucault on Political Imagination </i>and <i>Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Individuation. </i>She is editor (with Nancy Bauer) of the <i>Blackwell Companion to Simone de Beauvoir </i>and editor and translator of Jean Godefroy Bidima's <i>Law and the Public Sphere in Africa</i>: <i>La Palabre and Other Writings.</p></i></p>
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