Chiefly English; passages in French are translated into English. French collection.

History and hybridity -- Involution and revolution: African Paris in the 1920s -- Hallucinations of France and Africa -- Revolution and involution in images -- Nationalism as resistance and resistance to nationalism -- African literature and the challenge of intercultural literacy -- Beyond identity: the postidentitarian predicament in Deleuze and Guattari's A thousand plateaus.