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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'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, 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).
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Dedication
Introduction - 'Multidirectional Memory'
Chapter I - 'Mission Impossible'
A Christian Library
Shaba Deux
Une Bible noire
The Ancient Library
Chapter II - 'The Invention of Otherness'
Zairianisation
The Community
Chapter III - 'The West or the Rest?'
The Authentic Other
Ethnology as a Pretext
From Ethnology to Ethics
Chapter IV - 'Changing Places'
Voyage in America
An African Gnosis
E.W. Blyden
Foucault and an African Order of Knowledge
Chapter V - 'Independences?'
African Decolonisation Now
Victims and Culprits as Survivors
Conclusion - 'The Return of the Unhomely Scholar'
Bibliography
Index
