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Postcolonial Imperialism : Critique of the Society of Dazzlements - Joseph Tonda

Postcolonial Imperialism

Critique of the Society of Dazzlements

By: Joseph Tonda, Cheryl Smeall (Translator)

Paperback | 21 April 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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"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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