Chapters in this book

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