Joseph Tonda: Postcolonial Imperialism

Cover: 9781478038580 | Postcolonial Imperialism | Critique of the Society of Dazzlements

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Beschreibung

Postcolonial Imperialism considers the inability to distinguish between reality and fiction as a key condition of contemporary life. If postcolonial theory has highlighted how white colonizers created images of racialized Others which project their own self-hatred or disavowal, Joseph Tonda here shows how these images have in turn colonized Western imaginaries. He argues that the Global North’s obsession with its own phantoms takes a newly powerful form in the dazzling images of postcolonial screens. With examples ranging from Nicki Minaj to Osama Bin Laden and child soldier Johnny Mad Dog, Tonda reflects on power by analyzing the dazzlements of both Central Africa and the West, showing how African life prefigures Western experiences. Translated from its original French, Postcolonial Imperialism is a prescient critique of authoritarian attempts to enforce alternate realities, and of the many ways screens can distort our vision.

Über den Autor

Joseph Tonda is Professor Emeritus at Omar Bongo University of Libreville. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including La guérison divine en Afrique centrale and Modern Sovereign: The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon).

Cheryl Smeall is Lending and Access Manager at the McGill University Libraries. She is also the translator of The Doctor Who Would Be King by Guillaume Lachenal.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translator’s Note ix
Opening Threshold. The Dazzling Dark Powers of Postcolonial Imperialism 1
Threshold 1. Johnny Mad Dog and Osama Bin Laden: Agents of Postcolonial Imperialism 21
Threshold 2. Anchor Points 39
Threshold 3. Illuminations 57
Threshold 4. Sex-Bodies, Bombshell Breasts, and Dazzling DVDs and VCDs 83
Threshold 5. Bombs and Lightning Bolts 97
Threshold 6. Nafissatou Diallo, DSK, Sarkozy, and Postcolonial Imperialism 109
Threshold 7. Literary Dazzlements 127
Threshold 8. Africanism and Postcolonial Imperialism 155
Anaconda. Critical Threshold of Postcolonial Imperialism 169
Afterword / Peter Geschiere 181
Notes 195
Bibliography 217
Index 229

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	Neuzeit
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Theory in Forms
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781478038580
ISBN-10:	1478038586
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Tonda, Joseph
Übersetzung:	Smeall, Cheryl
Hersteller:	Duke University Press Theory in Forms
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	227 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Joseph Tonda
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.04.2026
Gewicht:	0,364 kg