On African Fault Lines: Meditations on Alterity Politics

By V-Y Mudimbe

This collection of meditations reformulates the experience of African studies as a concern with three thematics: Africa's place within today's intellectual, economic, and cultural configurations; the main axes that structure disciplinary practices concerned with African difference; and the possibility of understanding being-in-the-world with reference to alienation, creativity, and friendship. *** This book is highly innovative in its re-evaluation of alterity. It marshalls a broad range of theories from Adorno to Marx to Walter Benjamin, all the while grounding it in African politics and aesthetics through the lens of Yacouba Konate. A veritable tour de force, if ever there was one. - Kgomotso Masemola, Associate Professor of English, U. of South Africa (Series: Thinking Africa)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1869142446
• ISBN13: 9781869142445
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.0"