Idea of Africa
Mudimbe V.Y1994
Book
Total copies: 2
Subject: This book maps the ?idea? of Africa as conceived in various historical and geographical contexts. The author focuses on two main issues: the Greco-Roman thematisation of otherness and its articulation in such concepts as barbarism and savagery and the complex process that has shaped the idea of Africa as understood by Europeans. In the considerable intellectual space covered, Africa is outlined as a paradigm of difference. The author proceeds from an interrogation of the seventeenth-century French translation of the Greek Philostratus?s Icones to considerations of Greek contacts with the African continent, the Greek paradigm and its power, and the politics of memory. Individual chapters critique the present-day reactivation of Greek texts by black scholars and review contemporary activity in African art.
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Imprint:
US 1994 Indiana University Press
Collation:
234p
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ISBN:
0253208726
Dewey class:
AR.2.01MUDAR.2.01/MUD
Local class:
AR.2.01/MUD
Language:
English
BRN:
1840079