Pierre-Philippe Fraiture is a Professor of French in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick.

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsDedicationIntroduction - ‘Multidirectional Memory’Chapter I – ‘Mission Impossible’A Christian LibraryShaba DeuxUne Bible noireThe Ancient LibraryChapter II – ‘The Invention of Otherness’ZairianisationThe CommunityChapter III – ‘The West or the Rest?’The Authentic OtherEthnology as a PretextFrom Ethnology to EthicsChapter IV – ‘Changing Places’Voyage in AmericaAn African GnosisE.W. BlydenFoucault and an African Order of KnowledgeChapter V – ‘Independences?’African Decolonisation NowVictims and Culprits as SurvivorsConclusion - ‘The Return of the Unhomely Scholar’BibliographyIndex

I expect this book to contribute immensely to the fields and sub-fields it engages with, bridging disciplines and regional foci, and bringing Anglophone and Francophone scholars into (closer) dialogue. The book is theoretically advanced and develops its more general arguments in relation to, and by means of, selected textual and personal case studies that are embedded in specific regional and socio-historical circumstances. Still, its structure is sound, and the overall argument clear. It speaks to a wider interdisciplinary audience of researchers and (advanced or) graduate students in literature, philosophy, African Studies, (post)colonialism, intellectual history, and more.Kai Kresse