Sökt på: Böcker av V. Y. Mudimbe
totalt 20 träffar
Images of Africa
Images of Africa 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 …
Africa and the Disciplines
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, …
The Invention of Africa
Joint winner of the 1989 Herskovits Award What is the meaning of Africa and of being African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These …
The Idea of Africa
". . . 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 …
On African fault lines
This collection of meditations reformulates the experience of African studies as a concern with three thematics: Africa’s place within today’s intellectual, economic and cultural …
Mudimbe Reader
A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge Western and African modes of knowledge and for his critiques of …
Parables and Fables
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 …