Preface
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