Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa

Seloua Luste Boulbina teaches political theory at the Institut d'Études Politique in Paris and is a research associate and PhD supervisor at the Laboratoire de changement social et politique (Laboratory for Social and Political Change) at l'Université Paris VII. She is the author and editor of many books, including Les Arabes peuvent-ils parler? (Can the Arabs Speak?) and Grands Travaux à Paris (The Great Urban Projects of Paris). Laura Hengehold is Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. Her previous books include The Body Problematic: Kant and Foucault on Political Imagination and Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Individuation. She is editor (with Nancy Bauer) of the Blackwell Companion to Simone de Beauvoir and editor and translator of Jean Godefroy Bidima's Law and the Public Sphere in Africa: La Palabre and Other Writings.

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