Notes
- Michel Foucault, La volonté de savoir (Paris: Gallimard, 1976). Translated by Robert Hurley, as The History of Sexuality: Volume 1, An Introduction (New York: Random House, 1978).
- Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, De la dégénération des animaux (Paris: Parent Desbarres, 1868).
- Forbackground on the Elf corruption cases, see http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,435550,00.html
- This perspective has been promoted by the followers of Louis Farrakhan. See Historical Research Department of the Nation of Islam, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews (Chicago: The Nation of Islam, 1991).
- A. Le Palec, “Bamako, taire le SIDA,” Psychopathologie africaine 26, 2 (1994).
- Rachid Bouchareb, dir., Little Senegal (Alamode Film, 2001).
- Cited by Hassan Musa, in L. Barbier, ed., Partage d'exotismes. Catalogue de la 5e Biennale de l'Art contemporain de Lyon (Lyon: Biennale d'art contemporain, 2000): 15–16. [Musa notoriously refused to participate in the Lyon Biennale, on the grounds that he was expected to represent “the Other.”]
- Le Monde, 23 February 2001.
- Télérama 2685 (27 June 2001).
- Libération, 11 July 2001.
- Here the use of the adjective “feline” is a play on words that simultaneously refers to “catlike” qualities and evokes the cinematographic work of Federico Fellini.
- See Achille Mbembe, “A propos des écritures africaines de soi,” Politique africaine 77(septembre 2000).
- Ulf Hannerz, Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991).
- Michel Houellebecq, Les Particules élémentaires (Paris: J'ai lu, 2001), 195. Translated by Frank Wynne, as The Elementary Particles (New York: Vintage Books, 2001).
- Peter Sloterdijk, Règles pour le parc humain (Paris: Mille et Une Nuits, 2000).