Gaurav Desai is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Program of African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University.

“A thoroughly original work. Subject to Colonialism establishes Desai as a new authority in the study of African letters and thought across the twentieth century.” -David William Cohen, author of The Combing of History “Gaurav Desai has adopted in this study an original and productive approach to postcolonial literature by situating the discursive practices generated by the colonial encounter in a more comprehensive perspective than is usually offered in studies of this kind.”-F. Abiola Irele, Ohio State University “With its unassuming honesty, clarity of style, and fine balance of argument and information-virtues not often displayed in ‘postcolonial’ writing-this book is bound to find the readers it deserves beyond the narrow circle of the experts and the converted.”-Johannes Fabian, University of Amsterdam

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Dangerous Supplements 1. “Race,” Rationality, and the Pedagogical Imperative 2. Dangerous Liaisons? Frustrated Radicals, Master Professionals 3. Colonial Self-Fashioning and the Production of History Coda Bibliography Index

Gaurav Desai is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Program of African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University.

“A thoroughly original work. Subject to Colonialism establishes Desai as a new authority in the study of African letters and thought across the twentieth century.” -David William Cohen, author of The Combing of History “Gaurav Desai has adopted in this study an original and productive approach to postcolonial literature by situating the discursive practices generated by the colonial encounter in a more comprehensive perspective than is usually offered in studies of this kind.”-F. Abiola Irele, Ohio State University “With its unassuming honesty, clarity of style, and fine balance of argument and information-virtues not often displayed in ‘postcolonial’ writing-this book is bound to find the readers it deserves beyond the narrow circle of the experts and the converted.”-Johannes Fabian, University of Amsterdam

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Dangerous Supplements 1. “Race,” Rationality, and the Pedagogical Imperative 2. Dangerous Liaisons? Frustrated Radicals, Master Professionals 3. Colonial Self-Fashioning and the Production of History Coda Bibliography Index

Gaurav Desai is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Program of African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University.

“A thoroughly original work. Subject to Colonialism establishes Desai as a new authority in the study of African letters and thought across the twentieth century.” -David William Cohen, author of The Combing of History “Gaurav Desai has adopted in this study an original and productive approach to postcolonial literature by situating the discursive practices generated by the colonial encounter in a more comprehensive perspective than is usually offered in studies of this kind.”-F. Abiola Irele, Ohio State University “With its unassuming honesty, clarity of style, and fine balance of argument and information-virtues not often displayed in ‘postcolonial’ writing-this book is bound to find the readers it deserves beyond the narrow circle of the experts and the converted.”-Johannes Fabian, University of Amsterdam

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Dangerous Supplements 1. “Race,” Rationality, and the Pedagogical Imperative 2. Dangerous Liaisons? Frustrated Radicals, Master Professionals 3. Colonial Self-Fashioning and the Production of History Coda Bibliography Index