V. Y. Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism (Liverpool University Press - Contemporary French & Francophone Cultures). Cet article n’est pas disponible.V. Y. Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism (Liverpool University Press - Contemporary French & Francophone Cultures)

VY Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism is the first English-language monograph dedicated to the work of Valentin Yves Mudimbe. This book charts the intellectual history of the seminal Congolese philosopher, epistemologist, and philologist from the late 1960s to the present day, exploring his major essays and novels. Pierre-Philippe Fraiture highlights Mudimbe’s trajectory through major debates on African nationalism, Panafricanism, neo-colonialism, negritude, pedagogy, Christianisation, decolonisation, anthropology, postcolonial representations, and a variety of other subjects, using these as contexts for close readings of many of Mudimbe’s texts, both influential and lesser-known. The book demonstrates that Mudimbe’s intellectual career has been informed by a series of decisive dialogues with some of the key exponents of Africanism (Herodotus, EW Blyden, Placide Tempels), continental and postcolonial thought (Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, and Claude Lévi-Strauss), and African thought and philosophy from Africa and the diaspora (L.S. Senghor, Patrice Nganang, and Achille Mbembe).

Pierre-Philippe Fraiture is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick. His previous books include 'La Mesure de l'autre: Afrique subsaharienne et roman ethnographique de Belgique et de France (1918-1940)', 'Bibilotheque de Litterature Generale et Comparee', Paris, Editions Honore Champion, 2007 and 'Le Congo belge et son recit a la veille des independances: Sous l'empire du royaume', coll. 'Critiques Litteraires', Paris, Editions L'Harmattan, 2003