Kafka’s Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa (EPUB) von Seloua Luste Boulbina

1. This book important primary source by a woman philosopher.

2. Seloua Luste Boulbina takes on the problematic concept of "colony" and all of its subjective, sexual, political, and social implications.

3. Boulbina's book builds on the work of traditional, well-known European philosophers.

Preface

Translator's Introduction

Prologue: Thinking the Colony

Part I: Kafka's Monkey and Other Reflections on the Colony

1. With Respect to Kafka's Monkey

2. Challenging Historical Culture

3. The Colony, Mirage, and Historical Reality

Part II: Africa and its Phantoms: Writing the Afterward

Introduction

1. Saving One's Skin

2. History, an Interior Architecture

3. Language, an Internal Politics

4. Sexed Space and Gender Unveiled

5. Having a Good Ear

Conclusion

Part III: Epilogue: From Floating Territories to Disorientation

Bibliography

Index

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.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.

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, includingLes Arabes peuvent-ils parler?(Can the Arabs Speak?) andGrands Travaux à Paris(The Great Urban Projects of Paris).

Laura Hengehold is Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. Her previous books includeThe Body Problematic: Kant and Foucault on Political ImaginationandSimone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Individuation.She is editor (with Nancy Bauer) of theBlackwell Companion to Simone de Beauvoirand editor and translator of Jean Godefroy Bidima'sLaw and the Public Sphere in Africa:La Palabre and Other Writings.