LEADER 04163nam 22004935 450 001 9910865254103321 005 20250808085335.0 010 $a9783031571206 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-57120-6 035 $a(CKB)32317225500041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31496587 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31496587 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-57120-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932317225500041 100 $a20240618d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAfrica Beyond Inventions $eEssays in Honour of V.Y. Mudimbe /$fedited by Zubairu Wai 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (365 pages) 311 08$a9783031571190 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aI. Overture -- 1. Resurrecting Mudimbe ? Zubairu Wai -- Ii. Discourse Of Otherness- 2. Mudimbe?s Homo Absconditus: Towards A Resurrection Of The Human? Pierre-Philippe Fraiture -- 3. Aesthetic Theologies Of Resemblance, The Production Of Colonial Difference, And Possibilities Of Ethical Translation? Zahir Kolia -- 4. Notions Of Africanity?Sanya Osha -- Iii. Reading The Postcolonial -- 5. Refusing To Vanish: Despair, Contingency, And The African Political?Alírio Karina -- 6. Decolonizing Knowledge In Africa: Mudimbe?s Philosophical Deconstruction Of The Postcolonial Event?Gervais Désiré Yamb- 7. Recreating Knowledge About Africa In The Shadow Of The Colonial Library?Sally Matthews -- 8. The Danse Of Plato And Mudimbe, Or The Relationship Between Plato?s Epistemology And Mudimbe?s Phenomenology?Donatien M. Cicura -- Iv. Sites Of Inscriptions -- 9. The Elusive Mudimbe: A Feminist Journey Through His Novels?Getrude Mianda -- 10. Religion And Theology As Cultural And Political Performance?KaserekaKavwaherehi -- 11. Securitisation And The ?Weak States? Concept: A Mudimbean Analysis?Tinashe Jakwa -- V. Finale- 12. Afterword: Letter To V.Y. Mudimbe, On The Euromorphic Practice Of Critique ?Zubairu Wai. 330 $aAfrica Beyond Inventions is a rich critical engagement with the work of V.Y. Mudimbe. For decades, Mudimbe advanced a distinctive and erudite critical project that contributes to various bodies of knowledge in fields such as philosophy, anthropology, theology, postcolonial studies, decolonial theory, literary criticism, cultural studies, prose fiction, and African studies more broadly. A decade after his retirement and in the expansive spirit of his work, this volume stages a productive engagement with Mudimbe?s remarkable and capacious body of work and the conceptual, epistemic, methodological, and ethical challenges it poses for the modern disciplines, specifically in relation to Africa. It situates Mudimbe in his proper place as a complex and significant thinker whose extraordinary contributions to various bodies of knowledge deserves to be recognised and better apprehended for what it has taught and continues to teach about the discursivity of the modern disciplines and thepossibility of decolonising their colonising imprints in a moment that has been characterised as a decolonial turn. Through these engagements, the volume honours the intellectual legacy of one of Africa?s most brilliant minds and make his work accessible to a new generation of readers. Zubairu Wai is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. . 606 $aInternational relations 606 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government 606 $aInternational Relations Theory 606 $aAfrican Politics 615 0$aInternational relations. 615 0$aAfrica$xPolitics and government. 615 14$aInternational Relations Theory. 615 24$aAfrican Politics. 676 $a809.896 702 $aWai$b Zubairu 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910865254103321 996 $aAfrica Beyond Inventions$94168689 997 $aUNINA