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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsNote on Orthography and Pronunciation, ix
Introduction: Unwinding the Language Question, 1
Part I Colonial Literary Modernity
1. The Fetish of Textuality: David Boilat’s Notebooks and the Making of a Literary Past, 33
2. Para-literary Authorship: Colonial Education and the Uses of Literature, 51
3. Toward the Future Reader: Print Networks and the Question of the Audience, 96
Part II Decolonization and the Language Question
4. Senghor’s Grammatology: The Political Imaginaries of Writing African Languages, 123
5. Counterpoetics: Translation as Aesthetic Constraint in Sembène’s Mandabi and Ndao’s Buur Tilleen, 152
Part III World Literature, Neoliberalism
6. How Mariama Bâ Became World Literature: Translation and the Legibility of Feminist Critique, 181
7. Aesthetics After Austerity: Boubacar Boris Diop and the Work of Literature in Neoliberal Senegal, 203
Epilogue. Out of Time: Decolonization and the Future of World Literature, 233
Acknowledgments, 243
Notes, 247
Bibliography, 303
Index, 331
