Richard Watts is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Tulane University.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Paratexts and the Mediation of CulturePart 2 The Colonial Paratext and Its Imperial DesiresChapter 3 Black Text, White Masks: The Colonial Paratext in Sub-Saharan AfricaChapter 4 "The Felicitous Graft:" Hybridity and Anxiety in Indochina and North AfricaPart 5 The Textual Histories of DecolonizationChapter 6 Senghor and Sartre between the Colonial and the PostcolonialChapter 7 Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal and Its DisplacementsPart 8 Postcolonial Transfigurations of the BooksChapter 9 Glissant, Lopes, and the Ambivalence of the Postcolonial ParatextChapter 10 Gender and the ParatextChapter 11 Reading and Teaching Francophone Literatures in Translation

A further addition to Lexington's increasingly impressive 'After the Empire' series. . . . Watts challenges monolithic misrepresentations of the French Empire (and its discursive manifestations), exploring instead the historical (dis)continuities evident in an inclusively francophone postcoloniality. . . . By illustrating the ways in which the foreignness of francophone literature has been mediated for its various audiences, he offers a highly original study of that literature's complex genealogy.

Richard Watts is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Tulane University.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Paratexts and the Mediation of CulturePart 2 The Colonial Paratext and Its Imperial DesiresChapter 3 Black Text, White Masks: The Colonial Paratext in Sub-Saharan AfricaChapter 4 "The Felicitous Graft:" Hybridity and Anxiety in Indochina and North AfricaPart 5 The Textual Histories of DecolonizationChapter 6 Senghor and Sartre between the Colonial and the PostcolonialChapter 7 Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal and Its DisplacementsPart 8 Postcolonial Transfigurations of the BooksChapter 9 Glissant, Lopes, and the Ambivalence of the Postcolonial ParatextChapter 10 Gender and the ParatextChapter 11 Reading and Teaching Francophone Literatures in Translation

A further addition to Lexington's increasingly impressive 'After the Empire' series. . . . Watts challenges monolithic misrepresentations of the French Empire (and its discursive manifestations), exploring instead the historical (dis)continuities evident in an inclusively francophone postcoloniality. . . . By illustrating the ways in which the foreignness of francophone literature has been mediated for its various audiences, he offers a highly original study of that literature's complex genealogy.

Richard Watts is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Tulane University.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Paratexts and the Mediation of CulturePart 2 The Colonial Paratext and Its Imperial DesiresChapter 3 Black Text, White Masks: The Colonial Paratext in Sub-Saharan AfricaChapter 4 "The Felicitous Graft:" Hybridity and Anxiety in Indochina and North AfricaPart 5 The Textual Histories of DecolonizationChapter 6 Senghor and Sartre between the Colonial and the PostcolonialChapter 7 Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal and Its DisplacementsPart 8 Postcolonial Transfigurations of the BooksChapter 9 Glissant, Lopes, and the Ambivalence of the Postcolonial ParatextChapter 10 Gender and the ParatextChapter 11 Reading and Teaching Francophone Literatures in Translation

A further addition to Lexington's increasingly impressive 'After the Empire' series. . . . Watts challenges monolithic misrepresentations of the French Empire (and its discursive manifestations), exploring instead the historical (dis)continuities evident in an inclusively francophone postcoloniality. . . . By illustrating the ways in which the foreignness of francophone literature has been mediated for its various audiences, he offers a highly original study of that literature's complex genealogy.