Présence africaine and the politics of otherness, 1947-1987 /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by V.Y. Mudimbe.
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Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1992.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxvi, 463 pages ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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pt. 1 Text and Context -- 1. Presence Africaine: Geography of an "Ideology" / Bernard Mouralis -- 2. Conjugating Cultural Realities: Presence Africaine / Bennetta Jules-Rosette -- 3. Out of Africa! Should We De Done with Africanism? / Denis-Constant Martin -- pt. 2 Question of an African History -- 4. Presence Africaine: History and Historians of Africa / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch -- 5. Presence Africaine as Historiography: Historicity of Societies and Specificity of Black African Culture / Bogumil Jewsiewicki -- 6. Shadow of Cheikh Anta Diop / Mamadou Diouf / Mohamad Mbodj -- 7. Myth, Epic, and African History / Lilyan Kesteloot -- pt. 3 Alienation, Voices, and Writing -- 8. Alienation and Disalienation: Themes of Yesterday, Promises of Tomorrow / Richard Bjornson -- 9. Presence Africaine: A Voice in the Wilderness, a Record of Black Kinship / Mildred A. Hill-Lubin -- 10. Harlem Renaissance and Africa: An Ambiguous Adventure / Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi -- 11. If the Dead Could Only Speak! Reflections on Texts by Niger, Hughes, and Fodeba / Bernadette Cailler -- 12. In Praise of Alienation / Abiola Irele -- pt. 4 Philosophy and the Practice of Everyday Life -- 13. Inventing an African Practice in Philosophy: Epistemological Issues / K. Anthony Appiah -- 14. Recapturing / Paulin J. Hountondji -- 15. French Marxist Anthropology of the 1960s and African Studies: Outline for an Appraisal / Emmanuel Terray -- 16. Practical Ideology and Ideological Practice: On African Episteme and Marxian Problematic -- Ilparakuyo Maasai Transformations / Peter Rigby -- 17. Formulating Modern Thought in African Languages: Some Theoretical Considerations / Kwasi Wiredu -- 18. African University: Evaluation and Perspectives / Benoit Verhaegen -- 19. Daily Life in Black Africa: Elements for a Critique / Paulin J. Hountondji -- pt. 5 Dialogue on Presence Africaine -- 20. Historic Witnesses / Jacques Rabemananjara / Maurice A. Lubin / Simone Howlett / Albert H. Berrian / Emile Snyder / V.Y. Mudimbe -- 21. Analysts / V.Y. Mudimbe / Manthia Diawara / Henri Moniot / Fernando Lambert / Lilyan Kesteloot -- pt. 6 Conclusions -- 22. Politics of "Othering": A Discussion -- Word Delivered / Marc Rombaut -- Question of Taste / Roberta Ann Dunbar -- On Speaking and Hearing: Toward a Free and Liberating Discourse / Eileen Julien -- Alioune Diop and the Unfinished Temple of Knowledge / Christopher L. Miller -- 23. Finale / V.Y. Mudimbe.