Postcolonial Imperialism

Critique of the Society of Dazzlements

AvJoseph Tonda

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-04-21
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:503 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Theory in Forms
Antal sidor:250
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9781478033660
Översättare:Cheryl Smeall

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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.

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“Postcolonial Imperialism is a fluently translated introduction to a figure who has emerged as one of Africa’s most imaginative thinkers. The richness of Joseph Tonda’s work lies in the fine detail of his reading of our time as well as in the extravagance of his theoretical constructs.”—Achille Mbembe, author of Necropolitics“This book offers a groundbreaking approach to seemingly exhausted questions of postcoloniality and embodiment. With remarkable ingenuity, Tonda mobilizes a vast and eclectic range of genres and platforms, bringing into compelling dialogue both the celebrated and the infamous. Uncovering the limitations of dominant theoretical paradigms and disciplinary orientations, Tonda reconfigures modernity around transactions, transitions, and transgressions that shape embodied dynamics of violence and value.”—Naminata Diabate, author of Naked Agency

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