Materializing Imaginaries in Senegal

Fatoumata Seck is Assistant Professor of French and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature at Stanford University.

List of Abbreviations ix
Note on Othrography xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. Sixties Revolutionary Imaginaries in Modern African Literature 1
Part I. Modern African Literature and Global 1968
1. Revolutionizing Writers: Poetry, Passeurs, and Transnational Literary Networks, 1946–1960s 68
2. From Reform to Revolution: Decolonizing Independence, 1940s–1960s 68
3. Making African Classics: The Countercultural Movement and the New Creative Unconscious, 1969–1980s 107
Part II. Reading Sedimented Traces
4. Manifesting Revolution: The Underground Literature of the Senegalese Cultural Front, 1976–1984 153
5. Reclaiming the Past: The Stakes of Memory in the Early Works of Boubacar Boris Diop, 1981–1987 192
6. Reinventing Ordinary People: Discernment in the Works of Ousmane SembÈne, Aminata Sow Fall, Djibril Diop Mambety, and Ken Bugul, 1979–2000s 222
Coda. Waiting for the Revolution 255
Notes 271
Bibliography 307
Index 333