CONTENTS -- Abbreviations for Works -- Prologue -- 1 REREADING FANON -- Postindependence Hermeneutics -- Narrative as Dialectic -- Dialectic as Politics -- 2 IMMEDIATE KNOWLEDGE -- History as Antidialectic -- Aristotle as Witness -- Antidialectic as Space -- Struggles over the "Dividing Line" -- The Dividing Line as the "Divided Line"? -- 3 BEWILDERING ENLIGHTENMENT -- Narrative, Catastasis, Dialectic -- "The Weary Road toward Rational Knowledge" -- Baneful Inconsequence? The Life History of the "National Bourgeoisie" -- 4 POLITICAL JUDGMENT -- The Ambiguity of Exclusion -- Reprieve of Prodigal Reason -- Allegories of Appropriation -- Woman the Measure -- Epilogue: The Record and the Vision -- Notes -- Index.