The Tongue-Tied Imagination: Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal

Note on Orthography and Pronunciation
Introduction: Unwinding the Language Question

Part I   COLONIAL LITERARY MODERNITY
1.      The Fetish of Textuality: David Boilat’s Notebooks and the Making of a Literary Past
2.      Para-literary Authorship: Colonial Education and the Uses of Literature
3.      Toward the Future Reader: Print Networks and the Question of the Audience

Part II   DECOLONIZATION AND THE LANGUAGE QUESTION
4.      Senghor’s Grammatology: The Political Imaginaries of Writing African Languages
5.      Counterpoetics: Translation as Aesthetic Constraint in Sembène’s Mandabi and Ndao’s Buur Tilleen

Part III   WORLD LITERATURE, NEOLIBERALISM
6.      How Mariama Bâ Became World Literature: Translation and the Legibility of Feminist Critique
7.      Aesthetics After Austerity: Boubacar Boris Diop and the Work of Literature in Neoliberal Senegal

Epilogue. Out of Time: Decolonization and the Future of World Literature

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index