Grant Farred is professor of Africana studies at Cornell University.

A brilliant, dazzling, differing, and deferring attempt to grasp and at the same time not to grasp Derrida in/and Africa. This work is a very Derridean specter that is haunted by the goal it approaches and yet avoids.

• ContentsIntroduction: Africa, Still RemainsGrant FarredThe Place That Is Not Here: Derrida’s Africa and the Haunting of PlaceBruce B. Janz Deconstruction as Diaspora: On Derrida, Africa, and Identity’s DeferralJohn E. DrabinskiJacques Derrida: Figure of Maternal ThoughtNicolette Bragg Setting, an Example: Derrida’s South Africa (and Ours)Jan Steyn Jacques Derrida as an African Philosopher: Some considerations from Francophone African PhilosophyKasareka Kavwahirehi Afterword: Respect for Derrida in/and AfricaJean-Paul MartinonAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors

Grant Farred is professor of Africana studies at Cornell University.

A brilliant, dazzling, differing, and deferring attempt to grasp and at the same time not to grasp Derrida in/and Africa. This work is a very Derridean specter that is haunted by the goal it approaches and yet avoids.

• ContentsIntroduction: Africa, Still RemainsGrant FarredThe Place That Is Not Here: Derrida’s Africa and the Haunting of PlaceBruce B. Janz Deconstruction as Diaspora: On Derrida, Africa, and Identity’s DeferralJohn E. DrabinskiJacques Derrida: Figure of Maternal ThoughtNicolette Bragg Setting, an Example: Derrida’s South Africa (and Ours)Jan Steyn Jacques Derrida as an African Philosopher: Some considerations from Francophone African PhilosophyKasareka Kavwahirehi Afterword: Respect for Derrida in/and AfricaJean-Paul MartinonAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors