Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa

<p>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. <i>Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa</i> offers unique insights into how issues of migration religious and ethnic identity and postcolonial history affect contemporary France and beyond.</p>