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V. Y. Mudimbe
Finally, the book concludes by focusing on visual culture and Mudimbe’s recurring attempt to elucidate how African primitiveness has been constructed, challenged, dismissed, and reinvented from the Renaissance to the…
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V.Y. Mudimbe
What is the meaning of Africa and of being African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism ? These are the kind of fundamental…
As its author Professor Mudimbe says: ‘…this book presents journeys into the multifaceted idea of Africa. As approached and circumscribed here, this idea is a product of the West and…
Mudimbe
Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project’s forty-year history, The Surreptitious…
Investigates the concepts of nation, identity, and culture as they have evolved within the contexts of exile and the ethnicisation of the political. This book explores various theoretical issues involved…
Confronts the philosophical problems of otherness and identity through readings of the parables and fables of a colonized people, the Luba of Zaire. The author uses his own education by…
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Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
A monograph that is dedicated to the work of Valentin Yves Mudimbe. It charts the history of the seminal Congolese philosopher, epistemologist, and philologist from the late 1960s to the…
Confronts the cultural challenges of globalization.
All over Africa, an explosion in cultural productions of various genres is in evidence. Whether in relation to music, song and dance, drama, poetry, film, documentaries, photography, cartoons, fine arts…
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Mudimbe addresses the multiple scholarly discourses that exist–African and non-African–concerning the meaning of Africa and being African.
Mudimbe’s exploration of how the ideaof Africa was constructed by the Western world.
Valentin Y. Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments…
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V. Y. Mudimbe (Duke University, USA)
This is an exploration of African religious practice and the relation it bears to African identity. This work takes the problem of faith as its central theme, emphasizing the particular…
Challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a…
Chungmoo Choi,V. Y. Mudimbe,Sabine Engel
Examines diasporas, immigrant communities and border identities , ranging from Muslims in Europe to Chicanos in Texas, from Chinese immigrants in California to the peach blossom diaspora in Taiwan. This…
V. Y. Mudimbe,Sabine Engel
Examines specific diasporas, immigrant communities and ‘border identities’ ranging from Muslims in Europe to Chicanos in Texas, from Chinese immigrants in California to the ‘peach blossom diaspora’ in Taiwan. This…
Addresses the question: Why should Africa be studied in the American university? Put to scholars in the social sciences and humanities, prominent Africanists who are also leaders in their various…
Emphasizing work that frees our imaginations and allows us to conceive new theories, new language, and new questions, the collection seeks to establish the nature of Afro-American women’s experiences while…
With global promotion of la Francophonie, the relation between the different constituencies of the world’s French-speaking regions needs to be reexamined and debated. This book questions ingrained assumptions, pointing out…
