V. Y. Mudimbe

Reviews / Votes

A detailed study of V. Y. Mudimbe's critical and creative writing has long been overdue. That it should finally appear in a form that is accessible and genuinely illuminating will be a cause for celebration amongst scholars working not just in the areas of African Studies and postcolonial studies more widely, but for all those who share Mudimbe's 'undisciplined' approach to the study of writing, history, and critical thought.

Aedin Ni Loingsigh I expect this book to contribute immensely to the fields and sub-fields it engages with, bridging disciplines and regional foci, and bringing Anglophone and Francophone scholars into (closer) dialogue. The book is theoretically advanced and develops its more general arguments in relation to, and by means of, selected textual and personal case studies that are embedded in specific regional and socio-historical circumstances. Still, its structure is sound, and the overall argument clear. It speaks to a wider interdisciplinary audience of researchers and (advanced or) graduate students in literature, philosophy, African Studies, (post)colonialism, intellectual history, and more.

Kai Kresse