Del 29 - Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures

V. Y. Mudimbe

Undisciplined Africanism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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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

Utgivningsdatum2013-08-30
Mått163 x 239 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieContemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Antal sidor256
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781846318948

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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

A detailed study of V. Y. Mudimbe’s critical and creative writing has long been overdue. That it should finally appear in a form that is accessible and genuinely illuminating will be a cause for celebration amongst scholars working not just in the areas of African Studies and postcolonial studies more widely, but for all those who share Mudimbe’s ‘undisciplined’ approach to the study of writing, history, and critical thought.Aedin Ni Loingsigh