African Studies, contrary to some accounts, is not a separate continent in the world of American higher education. Its intellectual borders touch those of economics, literature, history, philosophy, and art; its history is the story of the world, both ancient and modern. This is the clear conclusion of "Africa and the Disciplines," a book that addresses the question: Why should Africa be studied in the American university? This question was put to distinguished scholars in the social sciences and humanities, prominent Africanists who are also leaders in their various disciplines....
African Studies, contrary to some accounts, is not a separate continent in the world of American higher education. Its intellectual borders touch t...
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 Speech" does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion and critical reading of its context, characteristics, and significance.
Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to "Presence Africaine," the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. Whil...
..". groundbreaking... clear, straightforward, and economical.... seminal... " American Anthropologist
"This is a challenging book... a remarkable contribution to African intellectual history." International Journal of African Historical Studies
"Mudimbe s description of the struggles over Africa s self-invention are vivid and rewarding. From Blyden to Sartre, Temples to Senghor, Mudimbe provides a bold and versatile resume of Africa s literary inventors." Village Voice Literary Supplement
..". a landmark achievement in African studies." Journal of Religion in...
..". groundbreaking... clear, straightforward, and economical.... seminal... " American Anthropologist
..". this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of African Historical Studies
"To read Mudimbe is to walk through a museum of many exhibits in the company of an erudite companion who explains, with much learned commentary, what you are seeing."--American Anthropologist
"Mudimbe's sympathetic yet rigorous accounts of such diverse Africanist discourses as Herskovits's cultural relativism and contemporary Afrocentricity bring to the surface the underlying goals and contexts in which these...
..". this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of Afric...
This book confronts the philosophical problems of otherness and identity through readings of the parables and fables of a colonized people, the Luba of Zaire. V.Y. Mudimbe poses two overarching questions: how can one think about and comment upon alterity without essentializing its features? Is it possible to speak and write about an African tradition or its contemporary practice without taking into account the authority of the colonial library that has invented African identities? Mudimbe brings unusual insight to such a discussion: Here I am on the margin of margins: Black, African,...
This book confronts the philosophical problems of otherness and identity through readings of the parables and fables of a colonized people, the Luba o...
Taking as its point of departure a sharp critique of Rawls's influential A Theory of Justice--which, like most Western political philosophy since the seventeenth century, considers ethics to be foundational to a proper understanding of the political--this book looks at politics from an aesthetic perspective. To achieve this, it focuses on the notion of political "representation" as the heart of parliamentary democracy, openly welcoming and embracing all the aestheticist connotations of the term. Representation will always present us with an "aesthetic gap" between the represented and...
Taking as its point of departure a sharp critique of Rawls's influential A Theory of Justice--which, like most Western political philosophy sin...
This volume investigates the concepts of nation, identity, and culture as they have evolved within the contexts of exile and as a result of the consolidation of the ethnic and the political. The contributors explore various theoretical issues involved in reconfiguring these concepts since the nineteenth century, as well as the manifestations of these issues in specific regions of the world. Examining the degree to which twentieth-century representations of colonization, revolution, and modernity are nineteenth-century constructs, Nations, Identities, Cultures locates contemporary...
This volume investigates the concepts of nation, identity, and culture as they have evolved within the contexts of exile and as a result of the consol...
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 was conceived and conveyed through conflicting systems of knowledge. North America: Indiana U Press
As its author Professor Mudimbe says: '...this book presents journeys into the multifaceted -idea- of Africa. As approached and circumscribed here, th...
Taking as its point of departure a sharp critique of Rawls's influential A Theory of Justice--which, like most Western political philosophy since the seventeenth century, considers ethics to be foundational to a proper understanding of the political--this book looks at politics from an aesthetic perspective. To achieve this, it focuses on the notion of political "representation" as the heart of parliamentary democracy, openly welcoming and embracing all the aestheticist connotations of the term. Representation will always present us with an "aesthetic gap" between the represented and...
Taking as its point of departure a sharp critique of Rawls's influential A Theory of Justice--which, like most Western political philosophy sin...
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, novels and short stories, essays, and (auto)biography; the continent is experiencing a robust outpouring of creative power that is as remarkable for its originality as its all-round diversity. Beginning from the late 1970s and early 1980s, the African continent has experienced the longest and deepest economic crises than at any other time since the period after the Second World War....
All over Africa, an explosion in cultural productions of various genres is in evidence. Whether in relation to music, song and dance, drama, poetry, f...
