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Author Luste Boulbina, Seloua, 1957- author.

Title Kafka's monkey and other phantoms of Africa / Seloua Luste Boulbina ; translated by Laura E. Hengehold ; foreword by Achille Mbembe
Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, Office of Scholarly Publishing, Herman B Wells Library, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
Series World philosophies
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
Summary Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa offers unique insights into how issues of migration, religious and ethnic identity, and postcolonial history affect contemporary France and beyond
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Colonization -- Philosophy
Postcolonialism -- Philosophy
Political science -- Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
PHILOSOPHY -- Essays.
Political science -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019980046
ISBN 9780253041951
0253041953
9780253041937
0253041937
Other Titles Singe de Kafka et autres propos sur la colonie. English