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Book SynopsisKafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa offers unique insights into how issues of migration, religious and ethnic identity, and postcolonial history affect contemporary France and beyond.
Trade Review"Seloua Luste Boulbina's analyses are seething with insight, brilliant in their tone, and way way beyond what "postcolonial studies" imagines it needs to do. She assaults the reader with a series of pricks to the skin and conscience that are too obvious and evident and unseen and unnoticed until she shows them to us."—Laura Ann Stoler, author of Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
"Through a series of complex and sophisticated philosophical interventions, Seloua Luste Boulbina reevaluates the history of colonialism, subjectivities in Africa, gender issues, and race relations in Africa."—Frieda Ekotto, author of Race and Sex across the French Atlantic
Table of ContentsPreface
Translator's Introduction
Prologue: Thinking the Colony
Part I: Kafka's Monkey and Other Reflections on the Colony
1. With Respect to Kafka's Monkey
2. Challenging Historical Culture
3. The Colony, Mirage, and Historical Reality
Part II: Africa and its Phantoms: Writing the Afterward
Introduction
1. Saving One's Skin
2. History, an Interior Architecture
3. Language, an Internal Politics
4. Sexed Space and Gender Unveiled
5. Having a Good Ear
Conclusion
Part III: Epilogue: From Floating Territories to Disorientation
Bibliography
Index
