Preface: An Atlas for This Book Introduction African History and White Noise 1 "Africa," the Fallout of Metonymy 00 All of Africa 00 I. Ancient and Medieval: Reading Africa Chapter One. Egypt, the Exception Africa, the Continent 00 Alexander the Great African 00 The Libyan God of Europe 00 The Fluid Land 00 Egypt in Medieval Europe 00 Moses the African 00 Alexander's African Romance 00 Egyptology's History of Europe 00 Egypt Theory 00 Chapter Two. Africa, Fulcrum of Epic Mythic Landing: The Iliad , the Argonautica , the Pharsalia , the Aeneid 00 Britain's African Foundations: Geoffrey of Monmouth 00 The African Invention of England 00 Chapter Three. The Specter of Carthage Carthage the Symptom: Virgil, Silius Italicus, Horace, Freud 00 Carthage and African Identities: Sallust, Tertullian, Augustine 00 Augustine's Scandalous Carthaginian Theory 00 The Dream of Scipio Africanus: Cicero and Macrobius 00 Petrarch's Modern Africa 00 Chaucer and the African 00 Chapter Four. Ghosts of Language: Punic, Lybic, African Myth The African Tumor in Language 00 Martianus Capella: In the Palace of Myth 00 Fulgentius: Africa's Mythic Language 00 Libyc, the Purest Language 00 The Symbolic Violence of Lost Languages: Bourdieu 00 Our Most Secret Writing: Assia Djebar 00 II. Medieval and Modern: Writing Africa Chapter Five. Allegory of Two African Cities Auerbach in Alexandria 00 Auerbach in Carthage 00 Chapter Six.
The King's African Bodies Kantorowicz's African Body 00 Mystical Kings, European and African 00 Anthropology's Divine Kings and Colonial Rule: Leo Frobenius and Max Gluckman 00 Chapter Seven. Kenya's Medieval Charter The Feudal Metaphor 00 Medieval Land Law in Africa 00 How Oxford Medievalists Ruled the World 00 Independent Feudalism 00 Kenyatta and Malinowski Imagine Land 00 Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Land before Time 00 Chapter Eight Fanon Outside History: Manicheism, Augustine, and Hegel Which Manicheism? 00 Manicheism and Dialectic 00 Struggling with Augustine, Then and Now 00 Chapter Nine Zimbabwe and the Fear of the Medieval The Specter of Carthage, Again 00 Picturesque Archaeology 00 Barbarian Invasions: Rhodes's Gibbon 00 The Inconvenience of the Medieval 00 Coda The New Divine Kings Acknowledgments Notes Index.