V. Y. Mudimbe : Undisciplined Africanism / Pierre-Philippe Fraiture.

Main entry:

Fraiture, Pierre-Philippe, author.

Title & Author:

V. Y. Mudimbe : Undisciplined Africanism / Pierre-Philippe Fraiture.

Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.

Description:

xii, 260 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 29

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-254) and index.
Introduction : Multidirectional memory -- Mission impossible? -- The invention of otherness -- The West or the rest? -- Changing places -- Independences -- Conclusion: The return of the unhomely scholar.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP17.50 0.

Summary:

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{u2019}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{u2019}s texts, both influential and lesser-known. The book demonstrates that Mudimbe{u2019}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). -- From publisher's website.

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ISBN:

1846318947
9781846318948

Subject:

Mudimbe, V. Y., 1941- Criticism and interpretation.
Mudimbé, V. Y., 1941-.
Mudimbe, V. Y., 1941-
Mudimbe, Valentin Y. 1941-
Mudimbé, Vumbi Yoka (1941-....) Critique et interprétation.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 29.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298759
Call No.: BIB 244890
Status: Available

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