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The Mudimbe Reader
Pierre-Phi Fraiture
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Description for The Mudimbe Reader
Hardcover. Editor(s): Fraiture, Pierre-Philippe; Orrells, Daniel. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white line drawings, tables. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; DNF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 538.
A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his interdisciplinary spirit in bridging Western and African modes of knowledge and in critiquing a range of disciplines, from the classics and philosophy to anthropology and comparative literature. Though Mudimbe has been regarded as an essential postcolonial thinker—on par with more canonized figures such as Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Homi Bhabha— The Mudimbe Reader offers for the first time a ground-breaking work of modern intellectual African history that includes new translations of essays which had previously been in French and out of print.
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A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his interdisciplinary spirit in bridging Western and African modes of knowledge and in critiquing a range of disciplines, from the classics and philosophy to anthropology and comparative literature. Though Mudimbe has been regarded as an essential postcolonial thinker—on par with more canonized figures such as Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Homi Bhabha— The Mudimbe Reader offers for the first time a ground-breaking work of modern intellectual African history that includes new translations of essays which had previously been in French and out of print.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813939100
SKU
V9780813939100
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About Pierre-Phi Fraiture
V. Y. Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, professor, and author of poems and novels as well as numerous books and articles on African culture and intellectual history, including his landmark book The Invention of Africa. Pierre-Philippe Fraiture is Professor of French at the University of Warwick. Daniel Orrells is Associate Professor in Ancient Greek Language and ... Read more
Reviews for The Mudimbe Reader
The Mudimbe Reader is an exhaustively researched, eloquently written and presented, and deeply insightful study of one of the towering figures in Francophone African studies, whose work is extraordinarily diverse and wide-ranging in terms of the intellectual and historical questions with which it engages. This collection, which is intelligently organized and includes a number of previously hard to find texts ... Read more