Secretly Inside: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Warren, Hans

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0299209806 ISBN 13 : 9780299209803

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2006

Synopsis

This book confronts the philosophical problems of otherness and identity through readings of the parables and fables of a colonized people, the Luba of Zaire. V.Y. Mudimbe poses two overarching questions: how can one think about and comment upon alterity without essentializing its features? Is it possible to speak and write about an African tradition or its contemporary practice without taking into account the authority of the colonial library that has invented African identities? Mudimbe brings unusual insight to such a discussion: Here I am on the margin of margins: Black, African, Catholic, yet agnostic; intellectually Marxist, disposed toward psychoanalysis, yet a specialist in Indo-European philology and philosophy. He uses his own education by Catholic missionaries in Zaire as a framework for exploring interactions between African and Western systems of thought.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hans Warren was a prominent Dutch writer best known for his published diaries, which he kept from 1939 until he died in 2001. In addition to these revered memoirs of modern life, he was a poet, translator of Greek literature, and a novelist.
S. J. Leinbach is a scholar and translator living in the Hague, Netherlands. His previous translations include Oek de Jong's novel Hoekwerda's Child.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299209806
• ISBN 13: 9780299209803
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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