V. Y. Mudimbe

Undisciplined Africanism

AvPierre-Philippe Fraiture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Del 29 i serien Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures

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Beskrivning

VY Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism is the first English-language monograph dedicated to the work of Valentin Yves Mudimbe. This book charts the intellectual history of the seminal Congolese philosopher, epistemologist, and philologist from the late 1960s to the present day, exploring his major essays and novels. Pierre-Philippe Fraiture highlights Mudimbe’s trajectory through major debates on African nationalism, Panafricanism, neo-colonialism, negritude, pedagogy, Christianisation, decolonisation, anthropology, postcolonial representations, and a variety of other subjects, using these as contexts for close readings of many of Mudimbe’s texts, both influential and lesser-known. The book demonstrates that Mudimbe’s intellectual career has been informed by a series of decisive dialogues with some of the key exponents of Africanism (Herodotus, EW Blyden, Placide Tempels), continental and postcolonial thought (Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, and Claude Lévi-Strauss), and African thought and philosophy from Africa and the diaspora (L.S. Senghor, Patrice Nganang, and Achille Mbembe).

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-08-30
Mått:163 x 239 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781846318948

Utforska kategorier

Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Pierre-Philippe Fraiture is a Professor of French in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick.

Recensioner i media

I expect this book to contribute immensely to the fields and sub-fields it engages with, bridging disciplines and regional foci, and bringing Anglophone and Francophone scholars into (closer) dialogue. The book is theoretically advanced and develops its more general arguments in relation to, and by means of, selected textual and personal case studies that are embedded in specific regional and socio-historical circumstances. Still, its structure is sound, and the overall argument clear. It speaks to a wider interdisciplinary audience of researchers and (advanced or) graduate students in literature, philosophy, African Studies, (post)colonialism, intellectual history, and more.Kai Kresse

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsDedicationIntroduction - ‘Multidirectional Memory’Chapter I – ‘Mission Impossible’A Christian LibraryShaba DeuxUne Bible noireThe Ancient LibraryChapter II – ‘The Invention of Otherness’ZairianisationThe CommunityChapter III – ‘The West or the Rest?’The Authentic OtherEthnology as a PretextFrom Ethnology to EthicsChapter IV – ‘Changing Places’Voyage in AmericaAn African GnosisE.W. BlydenFoucault and an African Order of KnowledgeChapter V – ‘Independences?’African Decolonisation NowVictims and Culprits as SurvivorsConclusion - ‘The Return of the Unhomely Scholar’BibliographyIndex