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  • Contemporary African Cultural Productions

    by V.Y. Mudimbe ...
    It is perhaps significant that the contemporary cultural effervescence that has come to the fore began to unfold in the context of the longest - and deepest - economic crises which the African continent has known since the period after the Second World War and which started in earnest in the late 1970s and early 1980s. What is particularly interesting is that while practically every indicator of ... Read more

    $20.46 USD

  • The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge

    by Vy Mudimbe ...
    "... 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 ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Life and Times of Cultural Studies

    The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge

    by Richard E. Lee, V. Y. Mudimbe, Bogumil Jewsiewicki ...
    Series series Philosophy and Postcoloniality
    Moving world-systems analysis into the cultural realm, Richard E. Lee locates the cultural studies movement within a broad historical and geopolitical framework. He illuminates how order and conflict have been reflected and negotiated in the sphere of knowledge production by situating the emergence of cultural studies at the intersection of post–1945 international and British politics and a two ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Scent of the Father

    Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Valentin-Yves Mudimbe ...
    Translated by Jonathan Adjemian ...
    Series series Critical South
    Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including The Invention of Africa, have been hugely influential across many disciplines and established his reputation as one of the essential ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Nations, Identities, Cultures

    Edited by V. Y. Mudimbe ...
    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 ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Images of Africa

    Creation, negotiation and subversion

    Edited by Julia Gallagher ...
    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 entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent – in presidents’ offices and party HQs, in newsrooms and rural authorities, in rebel militia bases and in artists’ and writers’ studies.Its ten ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Complicities

    The Intellectual and Apartheid

    by V. Y. Mudimbe, Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Mark A. Sanders ...
    Series series Philosophy and Postcoloniality
    Complicities explores the complicated—even contradictory—position of the intellectual who takes a stand against political policies and ideologies. Mark Sanders argues that intellectuals cannot avoid some degree of complicity in what they oppose and that responsibility can only be achieved with their acknowledgment of this complicity. He examines the role of South African intellectuals by looking ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Mudimbe Reader

    by V. Y. Mudimbe ...
    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 a range of disciplines, from classics and philosophy to anthropology and comparative literature. The Mudimbe Reader offers for the first time a ground-breaking work of modern intellectual African history from this ... Read more

    $36.49 USD