The Idea of AfricaIndiana University Press, 22 nov. 1994 - 234 pages "A sequel to V. Y. Mudimbe's highly acclaimed The invention of Africa, this book maps the 'idea' of Africa as conceived in various historical and geographical contexts from the Greeks to the present. Mudimbe focuses on two main issues: the Greco-Roman thematization of otherness and its articulation in such concepts as barbarism and savagery and the complex process that has shaped the idea of Africa s understood by Europeans. In the considerable intellectual space covered, Africa is outlined as a paradigm of difference. Mudimbe proceeds from an interrogation of a 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. Essential reading for anyone interested in the politics and construction of culture"--Back cover. |
Table des matières
Hercules among the Pygmies from Philostratus Icones | 3 |
Africa from the world atlas of Gerald Mercator 1595 | 16 |
Which Idea of Africa? | 38 |
Barberini musician bronze statuette c 200 B C 23 | 57 |
Head Amadeo Modigliani 1915 | 63 |
The Power of the Greek Paradigm | 71 |
The world in Herodotuss time 440 B C | 73 |
Allegory of Africa Martin de Vos sixteenth century | 81 |
Domestication and the Conflict of Memories | 105 |
Precolonial Africa | 116 |
Mpala 1975 | 137 |
Head of a King Ashanti c 1750 | 155 |
Héro National Lumumba 1970s | 166 |
Mukishi wa pwo the primordial mythic mother Zaïre | 173 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
aesthetic African art African literature Akan Ancient Model anthropology artistic Belgian Belgian Congo Bernal Blaise de Vigenère Buganda Burton Cailler Catholic century Certeau Christian Church civilization colonial concept concrete Congo context continent conversion critical cultural cultural relativism discourse Dogon Egypt Ethiopia Ethiopian ethnic ethnographic European évolués example fact Foucault French Garamantes geographic Glissant Greek Herodotus Herodotus's Herskovits human idea of Africa inhabitants intellectual Kimbanguism King knowledge Kongo language Léopold Sédar Senghor Libya living Marxist means Mels memory Miller mission missionaries modern Mpala Museum mythical narrative Négritude norms objects Oiorpata organization paradigm paradoxical Paris perspective philosophy political popular art possible practice primitive principle question refer region relativism religious Romain-Desfossés Roman Scheutists Scythians signifies signs Simon Kimbangu slave social society space story Strabo style symbolic terra nullius texts tion tradition transformation truth Victor Roelens Western White Fathers Wiredu's women Zaïre
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