Islam, ethics, revolt: politics and piety in francophone West African and Maghreb narrative

Introduction: Ethical revolt in Islamic piety and novelistic discourse

Gendering the subject and engendering the self: Mande acculturation, Islamic piety, and the forging of ethical identity in Camara Laye's L'enfant noir

Islamic ethics, anticolonialism, and the perils of modernity and its repudiation: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'aventure ambiguë

Modernity in revolt against Islam: Ouologuem's Le devoir de violence and Boudjedra's La Répudiation

Political economy, cultural despair, and the crisis of the language of revolt: Kourouma's Les soleils des indépendances

Incorporating the female subject: revolt, despair, and madness in Bâ's Un chant écarlate

The "sensible," the maternal, and the ethical grounding of feminist Islamic discourse in Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia and Loin de Médine

Requiem and rebirth: the language of Islamic ethical revolt in Djebar's Le blanc de l'Algérie

Conclusion: Islamic ethical revolt in historical and philosophical context.