[PDF] The Invention Of Africa eBook

Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780852552032

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What is the meaning of Africa and of being African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These are the kind of fundamental questions which this book addresses. North America: Indiana U Press

Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
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..". 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 provides a bold and versatile resume of Africa's literary inventors." -- Village Voice Literary Supplement ..". a landmark achievement in African studies."A -- Journal of Religion in Africa In this unique and provocative book, Zairean philosopher and writer V. Y. Mudimbe addresses the multiple scholarly discourses that exist -- African and non-African -- concerning the meaning of Africa and being African.

Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 1994-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253208729

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"... 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 Mudimbe is to walk through a museum of many exhibits in the company of an erudite companion who explains, with much learned commentary, what you are seeing." --American Anthropologist "Mudimbe's sympathetic yet rigorous accounts of such diverse Africanist discourses as Herskovits's cultural relativism and contemporary Afrocentricity bring to the surface the underlying goals and contexts in which these were produced." --Ivan Karp A sequel to his highly acclaimed The Invention of Africa, this is V. Y. Mudimbe's exploration of how the "idea" of Africa was constructed by the Western world.

Author : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 1997-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1452903255

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The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is socially constructed in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age.

Author : Abdelmajid Hannoum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1108838162

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Examines how French colonial modernity invented the concept of the Maghreb, making it distinct from Africa and the Middle East.

Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299130640

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Winner of the 2014 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye The word tyrant carries negative connotations, but in this new collection, Joanne Diaz tries to understand what makes tyranny so compelling, even seductive. These dynamic, funny, often poignant poems investigate the nature of tyranny in all of its forms political, cultural, familial, and erotic. Poems about Stalin, Lenin, and Castro appear beside poems about deeply personal histories. The result is a powerful exploration of desire, grief, and loss in a world where private relationships are always illuminated and informed by larger, more despotic forces. Winner, Midwest Book Award for Poetry, Midwest Independent Publishers Association"

Author : John Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0192802488

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Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.

Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521437738

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This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.