The Mudimbe Reader |
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| Author:
| Mudimbe, V. Y. |
| Editor:
| Fraiture, Pierre-Philippe
Orrells, Daniel |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-3911-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2016 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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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. 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.
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. 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.