Buy Rift Book by V.Y. Mudimbe - Bookswagon UAE
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Rift: (15 Exxon Lecture Series)

Rift: (15 Exxon Lecture Series)


     0     
5
4
3
2
1



Out of Stock


Notify me when this book is in stock
X
About the Book

"The Rift" explores textuality, writing, solitude, and death in the context of contemporary African life, and at the same time examines the constitution and materiality of African subjectivity. Mudimbe presents to us the story of the notebooks of a young historian and archivist, Ahmed Nara. Found after his sudden death, the journals contain entries from the last few days of this African doctoral student's life. A postcolonial Francophone "intellectual" adrift simultaneously in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and his National Library in Africa, Ahmed is attempting to write himself out of the anguish of his predicament. The world in which Ahmed lives is clearly that of a "Francophone" and neocolonial African state. His entries are erratic, impressionistic, abruptly shifting in tone, register, and reference. Ahmed's clinical schizophrenia is itself a metaphor of postcolonial Africa fraught with political, sexual, cultural, and linguistic indeterminacies that mark the uncertainty of the events he describes. Mudimbe's writing is provocative, demanding, and distinctly modernist. In its compelling exploration of the production of African knowledge within or outside the interstices of imperial space, "The Rift" contributes significantly to contemporary debates about the liminal subject split to use Homi Bhabha's phrase "between the here and the there" and most important, about issues of power and postcolonial epistemology. V.Y. Mudimbe is one of Africa's leading intellectuals. He is an established literary figure in Europe and Africa. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including "Before the Birth of the Moon" and "Between Tides". Marjolijn De Jager has translated many works of fiction, including Mudimbe's "Before the Birth of the Moon", Ken Bugul's "Abandoned Baobab", and Assia Djebar's "Women of Algiers in their Apartment".


Best Sellers


Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780816623129
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 136
  • Series Title: 15 Exxon Lecture Series
  • ISBN-10: 0816623120
  • Publisher Date: 05 Aug 1993
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 140 mm


Similar Products

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS      0     
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
Rift: (15 Exxon Lecture Series)
University of Minnesota Press -
Rift: (15 Exxon Lecture Series)
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

Rift: (15 Exxon Lecture Series)

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept


    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!