Yambo Ouologuem: Postcolonial Writer, Islamic

Christopher Wise is assistant professor of English at Western Washington University

Acknowledgments

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1 Introduction: A Voice from Bandiagara

1

(16)

Christopher Wise

PART 1 SWABBING THE DECK: AFRICAN RESPONSES TO OUOLOGUEM

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(50)

2 Remarks on Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de violence

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(6)

Wole Soyinka

3 From One Mystification to Another: "Negritude" and "Negraille" in Le Devoir de violence

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(16)

J. Mbelolo ya Mpiku

4 Images of Working People in Two African Novels: Ouologuem and Iyayi

39

(8)

Tunde Fatunde

5 The Representation of Homosexuality in Ouologuem's Le Devoir de Violence

47

(8)

Chris Dunton

6 Yambo Ouologuem and the Meaning of Postcoloniality

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(12)

Kwame Anthony Appiah

PART 2 DECOLONIZING WRITING? OR, PISSE-COPIE AESTHETICS RECONSIDERED

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7 The Unknown Voice of Yambo Ouologuem

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(22)

Eric Sellin

8 Writing as Exploratory Surgery: Yambo Ouologuem's Bound to Violence

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(20)

Christiane Chaulet-Achour

9 Trait d'union: Injunction and Dismemberment in Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de violence

109

(12)

Christopher L. Miller

10 Yambo Ouologuem, Satirist and Pamphleteer: Irony and Revolt in Letter a la France negre

121

(18)

Caroline A. Mohsen

11 Pornography, or the Politics of Misbehaving? A Feminist Reading of the Voices of Yambo Ouologuem

139

(16)

Ann Elizabeth Willey

PART 3 HISTORICAL RECONSIDERATIONS: ISLAMIC-SAHELIAN INFLUENCES IN OUOLOGUEM'S WRITINGS

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12 Rewriting the Songhay Past in Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de violence

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(20)

Thomas A. Hale

13 Qur'anic Hermeneutics, Sufism, and Le Devoir de violence: Yambo Ouologuem as Marabout Novelist

175

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Christopher Wise

PART 4 INTERVIEWS: YAMBO OUOLOGUEM TODAY

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14 In Search of Yambo Ouologuem

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(20)

Christopher Wise

15 Yambo Ouologuem Among the Tidjaniya

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(12)

Christopher Wise

16 Interview with al-Hajj Sekou Tall

231

(12)

Christopher Wise

Bibliography

243

(10)

The Contributors

253

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Index

255

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About the Book

258

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