Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Entanglements 1
6. Rupture: Chasing a Ghost 33
7. 1. Archiving Madness: From Colonial Psychiatry to the Establishment of Fann 39
8. Interlude: Many Battles 67
9. 2. Origin Stories: Collomb’s Fann and Senghor’s Senegal 70
10. Rupture: A Letter Unanswered 106
11. 3. Nostalgic for Modernity (Or, Looking Back on a Golden Age) 108
12. Interlude: A Terrible Cry fr om the Past 128
13. 4. The Ink That Marked History 130
14. Interlude: Each in His Corner 153
15. 5. Strategic Ambivalence 155
16. Rupture: A Thing I Could Not See (The Joola) 185
17. 6. Distinctions of the Present 191
18. Conclusion 218
19. Notes 223
20. Bibliography 237
21. Index 259