Violence in /and the Great Lakes
Subtitle: the thought of V-Y Mudimbe and beyond
By: edited by Grant Farred, Kasereka Kavwahirehi and Leonhard Praeg
Series: Thinking Africa; Thinking Africa
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781869142841
Subjects: Violence
Description: Is ... a homage to Valentin Mudimbe. This collection of essays honours the intellectual legacy of Mudimbe, for decades now one of Africa and the diaspora's most significant minds, by taking up the challenges -- ethical, political, philosophical, literary, sociological, anthropological, psychological -- his work poses. This book gathers a group of US- and Africa-based scholars, many of whom are long-time Mudimbe collaborators and colleagues, who use the questions posed, the critiques and insights offered and the paradigms constructed by Mudimbe's oeuvre to understand the implication -- and, in some instances, the application -- of Mudimbe's work in our moment.--Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : silhouette of the unknown woman; title: For a common ascension in humanity : the intellectual's mission  in the Great Lakes Region; title: Life, 'life' and death; title: Violence of details and details of violence in novels by V-Y Mudimbe; title: Representations of violence in V-Y Mudimbe's novels; title: Making visible and eradicating Congo's history of violence : maiming the Female/National Body; title: A phemonenology of violence; title: On the banality of violence : state, power and the everyday in Africa; title: Postcards from the postcolony; title: Debitores Sumus ... on ways of exhausting our question on violence; title: Coda : violence and the sublime.