Search results for ""Author V. Y. Mudimbe""
Indiana University Press The Idea of Africa
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefaceI. Symbols and the Interpretation of the African PastII. Which Idea of Africa?III. The Power of the Greek ParadigmIV. Domestication and the Conflict of MemoriesV. ReprendreCodaBibliographyIndex
£12.34
Africa World Press Recontextualizing Self & Other Issues In Africa:
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£27.96
Duke University Press Nations Identities Cultures
Book SynopsisInvestigates the concepts of nation, identity, and culture as they have evolved within the contexts of exile and the ethnicisation of the political. This book explores various theoretical issues involved in reconfiguring these concepts since the nineteenth century. It is aimed at readers engaged in postcolonial and cultural studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction / V. Y. Mudimbe 1 Pre-Texts and Models Race, Class, and Gender in the Formation of the Aryan Model of Greek Origins / Martin Bernal 7 Civil Society: From Utopia to Management, from Marxism to Anti-Marxism / Dominique Colas 29 Case Studies Kongo Identity, 1483–1993 / Wyatt MacGaffey 45 The Current Great Narrative of Québecois Identity / Jocelyn Létourneau 59 Between Universalism and Particularism: The "Border" in Israeli Discourse / Daphna Golan 75 Reimagining Lebanon / miriam cooke 95 The Ethnicization of Nations: Russia, the Soviet Union, and the People / Thomas Lahusen 123 Small Differences—Large Issues: The Make and Remaking of a National Border / Anders Linde-Laursen 143 Post-Texts and Systems Dialectical Identity in a "Post-Critical" Era: A Hegelian Reading / John McCumber 165 The Insurmountable Contradictions of Liberalism: Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System / Immanuel Wallerstein 181 On Producing the Concept of a Global Culture / Kenneth Surin 199 Notes on Contributors 221 Index 223
£22.49
Indiana University Press The Invention of Africa
Book SynopsisMudimbe addresses the multiple scholarly discourses that exist-African and non-African-concerning the meaning of Africa and being African.
£18.04
The University of Chicago Press The Surreptitious Speech Presence Africaine and
Book SynopsisDistinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion and critical reading of its context, characteristics, and significance.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Africa and the Disciplines
Book SynopsisAddresses the question: Why should Africa be studied in the American university? Put to scholars in the social sciences and humanities, prominent Africanists who are also leaders in their various disciplines, their responses make a strong case for the research on Africa.
£26.60
Manchester University Press Images of Africa Creation Negotiation and
Book SynopsisChallenges 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.Table of ContentsForeword, V. Y. Mudimbe1. Theorising image: a relational approach, Julia Gallagher2. Constructing images of Africa: from troubled pan-African media to sprawling Nollywood, George Ogola3. International news and the image of Africa: new storytellers, new narratives? Mel Bunce4. ‘Image management’ in east Africa: Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and their donors, Jonathan Fisher5. Mirrors, mimicry and the spectre of a failed state: how the government of Ethiopia deploys image, Emmanuel Fanta6. Images of a traditional authority: the case of Ker Kwaro Acholi in northern Uganda, Clare Paine7. The war of images in the Ivoirian post-electoral crisis: the role of news and online blogs in constructing political personas, Anne Schumann8. Negotiating narratives of human rights abuses: image management in conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Georgina Holmes9. Re-imagining Ethiopia: from campaign imagery to contemporary art, Wanja Kimani10. Silent bodies and dissident vernaculars: representations of the body in South African fiction and film, Lizzy AttreeIndex
£81.00
University of Chicago Press The Surreptitious Speech Presence Africaine and
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£112.87
Manchester University Press Images of Africa: Creation, Negotiation and
Book SynopsisImages 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 chapters, written by scholars working across the continent and a range of disciplines, develop innovative ways of thinking about how image is produced. They ask: who controls image, how is it manipulated, and what effects do the images created have, for political leaders and citizens, and for Africa's relationships with the wider world. The answers to these questions provide a compelling and distinctive approach to Africa's positioning in the world, establishing the dynamic, relational and sometimes subversive nature of image.Table of ContentsForeword, V. Y. Mudimbe1. Theorising image: a relational approach, Julia Gallagher2. Constructing images of Africa: from troubled pan-African media to sprawling Nollywood, George Ogola3. International news and the image of Africa: new storytellers, new narratives? Mel Bunce4. ‘Image management’ in east Africa: Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and their donors, Jonathan Fisher5. Mirrors, mimicry and the spectre of a failed state: how the government of Ethiopia deploys image, Emmanuel Fanta6. Images of a traditional authority: the case of Ker Kwaro Acholi in northern Uganda, Clare Paine7. The war of images in the Ivoirian post-electoral crisis: the role of news and online blogs in constructing political personas, Anne Schumann8. Negotiating narratives of human rights abuses: image management in conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Georgina Holmes9. Re-imagining Ethiopia: from campaign imagery to contemporary art, Wanja Kimani10. Silent bodies and dissident vernaculars: representations of the body in South African fiction and film, Lizzy AttreeIndex
£24.69
