num_pages: 490
description: Distinguished 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.
language: English
title: The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987
titlecomplete: The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987
ratings_count: 4
publisher: University of Chicago Press