Parables and Fables: Exegesis, Textuality, and Politics in Central Africa

by V.Y. Mudimbe

Book Overview

This remarkable book confronts the philosophical problems of otherness and identity through readings of the parables and fables of a colonized people, the Luba of Zaire. V. Y. Mudimbe poses two... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299130649
• ISBN13: 9780299130640
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"