Description: Finally, the book concludes by focusing on visual culture and Mudimbe's recurring attempt to elucidate how African primitiveness has been constructed, challenged, dismissed, and reinvented from the Renaissance to the present day.
Review Quotes:
The Mudimbe Reader presents exhaustively researched, eloquently crafted, and deeply insightful writings by one of the towering figures in francophone African studies. Mudimbe's work is extraordinarily diverse and wide-ranging in terms of the intellectual and historical questions with which it engages. This collection, which is intelligently organized and includes a number of previously hard-to-find texts, represents a major contribution to a broad spectrum of disciplines in African studies.
--Michael Syrotinski, University of Glasgow, author of Deconstruction and the Postcolonial: At the Limits of Theory