The Rift

The Rift

V. Y. Mudimbe
Translated by Marjolijn de Jager

$20.00 cloth
ISBN: 0-8166-2312-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-2312-9

This work of fiction 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.

"Offers an intricate, subtle, and richly allusive meditation on a singular, very specifically demarcated, 'postcolonial condition': that of the France-educated, masculine (but ambiguously sexualized) African intellectual, Ahmed Nara." —Neil Lazarus

Marjolijn de Jager translates from both French and Dutch, and was also the translator of Marc Augé’s Oblivion (1993). She teaches literary translation at New York University.

136 pages | 1993
Emergent Literatures Series



The Rift V. Y. Mudimbe Translated by Marjolijn de Jager		$20.00 cloth ISBN: 0-8166-2312-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-2312-9
This work of fiction 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. "Offers an intricate, subtle, and richly allusive meditation on a singular, very specifically demarcated, 'postcolonial condition': that of the France-educated, masculine (but ambiguously sexualized) African intellectual, Ahmed Nara." —Neil Lazarus Marjolijn de Jager translates from both French and Dutch, and was also the translator of Marc Augé’s Oblivion (1993). She teaches literary translation at New York University. 136 pages \| 1993 Emergent Literatures Series