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Remembering Africa »

Authors: Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi
ISBN-13: 9780325070728, ISBN-10: 0325070725
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Heinemann
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

ELISABETH MUDIMBE-BOYI is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Stanford University.

This collection of essays is concerned less with the representation of Africa than with the memory of the continent.

	Illustrations
	Introduction
Pt. I	Writing Empire, Writing Territory	1
1	The Genealogy of French Africanism	3
2	The Western Anticolonialist of the Postcolonial Age: The Reformist Syndrome and the Memory of Decolonization in (Post-)Imperial French Thought	32
3	Stanley and Conrad: Founders of Alternative Discourses about Central Africa	56
4	Geography, Literature, and the African Territory: Some Observations on the Western Map and the Representation of Territory in the South African Literary Imagination	74
Pt. II	Visualizing Africa	101
5	Painting Algerian Society: Exoticism, Modernism, Identity	103
6	African Animals in the West: Can the Subaltern Growl?	124
7	The Mirror and the Tomb: Africa, Museums, and Representation	150
8	Dance: The Passion to Be Oneself in Dialogue with Others	171
Pt. III	Unveiling Silence, Unveiling History	185
9	Remembering the Incomprehensible: Helene Cixous, Leila Sebbar, Yamina Benguigui, and the War of Algeria	187
10	Toward a Cross-Cultural Poetics of African Drumming: Recollection, Reconnection, and Imagination in French Caribbean Fiction	206
11	Lingua Franca: A Non-Memory	234
12	Derrida's Algerian Anamnesis; or Autobiography in the Language of the Other	245
Pt. IV	Inscribing the Self in Cultural Narratives	281
13	"Immediate History": Remembering the Golden Age of Research in Political Science at the University of Kinshasa	283
14	Nubile (in) Morocco	302
	Index	315
	About the Contributors	335