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  • The Truth about Marie

    by Jean-Philippe Toussaint ...
    Translated by Matthew B. Smith ...
    Series series French Literature
    Moving through a variety of locales and adventures, The Truth about Marie revisits the unnamed narrator of Toussaint's acclaimed Running Away, reporting on his now disintegrated relationship with the titular Marie—the story switching deftly between first- and third-person as the narrator continues to drift through life, and Marie does her best to get on with hers. Like all of Toussaint's novels, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Philosophies

    by Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux ...
    Translated by Matthew B. Smith ...
    For many students of philosophy in the West, philosophy is understood as a discipline stemming from Ancient Greece, embracing the great thinkers of medieval and early modern Europe and continuing through to the present day. To the extent that other philosophical traditions are taken into account, these tend to be selected philosophical traditions of Asia. Rarely is African philosophy considered in ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • We, the Decolonized

    by Hélé Beji ...
    Translated by Matthew B. Smith ...
    Series series Critical South
    We, the Decolonized is a passionate reflection on the pitfalls of the decolonial venture in postcolonial countries, with particular reference to North Africa. Hélé Béji shows that in many formerly colonized countries, the reality of independence took the form of elusive freedom, widespread disillusionment and the insidious survival of forms of domination bequeathed by former colonial powers.Béji ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Darkening Blackness

    Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in 21st-Century Black Thought

    by Norman Ajari ...
    Translated by Matthew B. Smith ...
    The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity. What if the ideas and reforms we regard as progressive were just the new and shiny face of racism? In the time of Black Lives Matter, the unswerving dehumanization and killing of Black people form ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Colonial Trauma

    A Study of the Psychic and Political Consequences of Colonial Oppression in Algeria

    by Karima Lazali ...
    Translated by Matthew B. Smith ...
    Series series Critical South
    Colonial Trauma is a path-breaking account of the psychosocial effects of colonial domination. Following the work of Frantz Fanon, Lazali draws on historical materials as well as her own clinical experience as a psychoanalyst to shed new light on the ways in which the history of colonization leaves its traces on contemporary postcolonial selves.Lazali found that many of her patients experienced ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Dignity or Death

    Ethics and Politics of Race

    by Norman Ajari ...
    Translated by Matthew B. Smith ...
    This book sets out to understand the ethical dimension of Black lives and deaths in the modern period. Recent events—from the brutal murder of George Floyd to the pervasive violence meted out daily on the streets of our cities—have demonstrated all too clearly the fundamental trait that shapes our contemporary moment: the Black condition is defined by indignity.Ajari takes dignity as his starting ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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  • Counter-History of the Present

    Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy

    by Gabriel Rockhill ...
    In Counter-History of the Present Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized and globalized era intimately connected by a single, overarching economic and technological network. Noting how such a narrative fails to account for the experiences of the billions of people who lack ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Frantz Fanon

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Anthony C. Alessandrini ...
    Frantz Fanon was a fearless critic of colonialism and a key figure in Algeria's struggle for independence. Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives addresses Fanon's extraordinary, often contraversial writings, and examines the ways in which his work can shed light on contemporary issues in cultural politics. Embracing feminist theory, cultural studies and postcolonialism, Frantz Fanon: Critical ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Life

    A Critical User's Manual

    by Didier Fassin ...
    How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived? Philosophers and, more recently, social scientists have offered multiple answers to this question, often privileging one expression or the other – the biological or the biographical. But is it possible to conceive of them together and thus reconcile naturalist and humanist approaches? Using research ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Creolization of Theory

    by Étienne Balibar, Dominique Chancé, Pheng Cheah, Leo Ching, Barnor Hesse, Anne Donadey ...
    Introducing this collection of essays, Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back—investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplines—offers a way for scholars in the humanities to move critical debates forward. They describe how disciplines or methodologies that seem distinct today emerged from overlapping intellectual and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Human Rights, Inc.

    The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law

    by Joseph R. Slaughter ...
    In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of “world literature” and international human rights law are related phenomena.Slaughter argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual. The Bildungsroman, the novel ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Critique and Praxis

    by Bernard E. Harcourt ...
    Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, autonomy, and human flourishing. Yet today’s critical theory often seems to engage only in critique. These times of crisis demand more.Bernard E. Harcourt challenges us to move beyond decades of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD