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Examines the transformative power of irony in the creation of Muslim Africa.

Examines the transformative power of irony in the creation of Muslim Africa.

Of Irony and Empire is a dynamic, thorough examination of Muslim writers from former European colonies in Africa who have increasingly entered into critical conversations with the metropole. Focusing on the period between World War I and the present, "the age of irony," this book explores the political and symbolic invention of Muslim Africa and its often contradictory representations. Through a critical analysis of irony and resistance in works by writers who come from nomadic areas around the Sahara-Mustapha Tlili (Tunisia), Malika Mokeddem (Algeria), Cheikh Hamidou Kane (Senegal), and Tayeb Salih (Sudan)-Laura Rice offers a fresh perspective that accounts for both the influence of the Western, instrumental imaginary, and the Islamic, holistic one.

Acknowledgments
1. Prologue: Of Irony and Empire
2. African Conscripts/European Conflicts: Race, Memory, and the Lessons of War
3. Ambiguous Adventure: Reading Cheikh Hamidou Kane
4. Heimlich un-Heimlich: Of Home as Heterotopia in Salih, Tlili, and Mokeddem
5. Epilogue: The Ends of Irony
Notes
Bibliography
Index