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ack now l ed gm en ts Writing this book has been an intellectual voyage, and I am especially grateful to colleagues and friends who accompanied me and who have read chapters and offered insightful comments: Zan Kocher at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette; Mary Donaldson-Evans, Philip Goldstein , Gary Ferguson, and Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz at the University of Delaware; Lance Donaldson-Evans at the University of Pennsylvania; and Ayo Abietou Coly at Dartmouth College. I am particularly grateful to my colleague and mentor Bruno Thibault who encouraged me throughout the process. I am also indebted to Anne Boylan for introducing me to the Reception Studies Society. I thank the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware for a General University Research grant and a one-semester leave, which allowed me to focus on my research and to travel to Northwestern University, the University of Texas-Austin, and Martinique, thus helping me make significant progress. I would like to express special gratitude to Cathie Brettschneider at the University of Virginia Press for her enthusiastic support and precious collaboration throughout the process from manuscript to book. I am also grateful to the Modern Language Initiative for supporting my project. I would like to thank Philip Goldstein and the Reception Studies Society for opening a panel for reception studies of non-Western regions . It was through that channel that I was able to present part of my research and fine-tune my findings. I am grateful to the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, to the Archives Départementales de la Martinique, and to La Bibliothèque Schoelcher for allowing me to conduct archival research. A portion and an older version of Chapter 2 first appeared in The Acknowledgments viii Dark Webs: Perspectives on Colonialism in Africa (2005) under the title “Mudimbé: History, Autobiography, and Philosophy.” Older versions and portions of Chapters 1 and 3, “Rhétorique de l’exemple et réception chez Kesso Barry et Hampâté Bâ” and “L’appropriation du masculin dans Kesso de Kesso Barry” appeared respectively in Nouvelles Études Francophones (fall 2010) and Itinéraires (Littérature, Textes, Cultures ) (no. 2 [December 2008]). ...