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Tables of Contents for Blank Darkness
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
Part One: Introduction
``Telle figure que 1'on veut'': Deriving a Discourse
3
66
A Discourse with Tails
3
3
Names for a Distance
6
8
Orientalism and Africa
14
9
Ambivalence in Antiquity
23
9
Blameless Ones and Headless Ones
23
6
The ``Idea'' of Blackness
29
3
Aniaba and Zaga-Christ
32
7
Nigri Idolatrae
39
10
French Priority and French Desire
49
12
``Africa,'' Dream and Discourse
61
8
Part Two: Africanist Poetics
Baudelaire in the Nineteenth Century: Black and White in Color
69
70
Introduction
69
2
Les Curiosites esthetiques
71
11
The Salon of 1845
71
3
The Salon of 1846
74
8
Writing on the Void
82
5
Baudelaire and Gobineau
87
11
Black Irreflection
87
6
Creole Creativity
93
5
The Creole Lady
98
10
But Not Satisfied
108
7
``La Belle Dorothee''
115
10
The Swan, the Slave, and the Rhetoric of Nostalgia
125
11
Equality and Hierarchy
136
3
``Je est un negre,'' or Rimbaud's Africanist Adventures
139
30
Introduction
139
1
The Poetry
140
18
``Mauvais Sang''
140
17
``Democratie''
157
1
Rimbaud ``chez les negres''
158
6
The Myth of Writing
159
2
The Myth of the Slave Trade
161
3
Rimbaud and Myth
164
5
Part Three: Africanist Narrative
The Discoursing Heart: Conrad's Heart of Darkness
169
15
Africa and the Novel
169
2
Narrating Backwards
171
5
``Heart'' and ``Darkness'': Condensing and Lying
176
2
``Those Savages''
178
3
Conrad and Rimbaud
181
1
Heart of Darkness and the French
182
2
No One's Novel: Sade's Aline et Valcour
184
17
Framing Disruption
184
5
The Body Dis-organized
189
4
Libertinism and the Figure of Africa
193
8
Celine and the Night: ``Nothing to Report''
201
15
Celine the Obscure
201
2
The Endless Night
203
5
In Bambola-Bragamance
208
8
Dis-figuring Narrative: Plagiarism and Dismemberment in Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de Violence
216
30
The African and the Novel
216
3
Plagiarism, Legally
219
9
Identity of the Text
219
4
The Purloined Quotation Marks
223
2
Lettre a la France negre
225
3
Narration in Le Devoir de violence
228
10
Ouologuem and Libertinism
238
8
Conclusion
246
5
Bibliography
251
14
Index
265