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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 277–302.
Published: 01 November 2004
... . The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays . Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Ed. Michael Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981 . Butler , Judith . “Mbembe’s Extravagant Power.” Public Culture 5 ( 1992 ): 67 –74. Coetzee , J. M. Age of Iron . New York: Penguin, 1990 . Coronil...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 85–103.
Published: 01 May 2021
... introduces us to “the General,” a fictionalized version of Siyad Barre, who ruled Somalia from 1969 to 1991. Like Barre's, the General's power exemplifies what Achille Mbembe calls “necropolitics,” or “the contemporary subjugation of life to the power of death.” The General's necropower manifests, peculiarly...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 163–168.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and school for Jamaican Chinese. As
Achille Mbembe notes, “The status and the power of the archive derive from this
entanglement of building and documents” (19), and Lowe here attempts to con-
struct a more durable and therefore powerful archive than that of his letter.
Powell’s novel, like Lowe’s...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 113–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
... . London : Heinemann , 1978 . Mbembe Achille . Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization . New York : Columbia UP , 2021 . Mbue Imbolo . Behold the Dreamers . London : Fourth Estate , 2016 . McCoy Shane A. “ The ‘Outsider Within’: Counter-Narratives of the ‘New...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 417–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... casts into relief the halting nature of Johannesburg's transitions. South Africa of course did not undergo revolution but a negotiated transition, and its past was not liquidated but incorporated into its present. At a material level, the spatial transformations in the wake of what Achille Mbembe calls...
FIGURES
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 339–361.
Published: 01 August 2018
... of national unity, of sovereignty, of the sacrifices of liberation, and of patriotism and racial solidarity” ( 16 ). Likewise, Ranka Primorac, in her book The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe , invokes Achille Mbembe to articulate her experiences with Zimbabwe's restrictive academic...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 430–450.
Published: 01 November 2023
... materials to recover subordinated voices with the aim of theorizing a Black subject. 4 Achille Mbembe and Michelle Wright have illustrated that the emergence of such discourses on the Black subject rests on the foundation of an archive capable of reactivating a collective Black consciousness ( Mbembe 28...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 208–223.
Published: 01 August 2015
... the relationship between embodiment and agency in a new way. Acts of self-starvation participate in the logic of personal agency that Achille Mbembe describes as self-sacrifice. Within what he terms a necropolitical order, Mbembe understands the constant threat of violence directed toward oneself as a way...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 61–94.
Published: 01 May 2022
... J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature . Princeton, NJ : Princeton UP , 2015 . Mbembe Achille . “ Necropolitics .” Trans. Meintjes Libby . Public Culture 15 . 1 ( 2003 ): 11 – 40 . McChrystal Stanley . Foreword. Lartéguy vii – x...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 409–425.
Published: 01 November 2017
... (anthropology), Dipesh Chakrabarty (history), and Achille Mbembe (political science)” ( 7 ). Those conversations “provided a robust cross-disciplinary contextual dimension to literary studies,” which inadvertently encouraged “a gradual shift away from the examination of the literary object” and soon resulted...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 197–205.
Published: 01 May 2010
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Maturin, Charles, III: 140 Playing in the Dark, III: 148
Max Weber Morton, Timothy, II: 474
The Protestant Ethic, III: 1 Mosley, Walter
Mbembe, Achille, III: 163 Black Betty, II: 361
McClennan, John...
