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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraiture, Pierre-Philippe, author.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 29.

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mudimbe, V. Y., 1941-2025--Criticism and interpretation.

Mudimbe, V. Y.

Mudimbe, V. Y., 1941-2025.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xii, 260 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.

Summary:

V.Y. 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, E.W. 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). Book jacket.

Contents:

1 'Mission Impossible?' 16

2 'The Invention of Otherness' 50

3 'The West or the Rest?' 79

4 'Changing Places' 113

5 'Independences?' 147.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1846318947

9781846318948

OCLC:

833574580