The political and economic developments of the Sino-African relationship are no longer to be demonstrated. However, what about its insertion in the long course history of intercontinental exchanges ? The two works I intend to study – Dai Sijie’s L’Acrobatie aérienne de Confucius (2009) and Paul Kawczak’s Ténèbre (2020) – offer to contribute to filling this gap. Coming from the contemporary francophone field (francophone literature from China for Dai Sijie, from Quebec for Paul Kawczak), these two novels, both characterized by a baroque aesthetic, focus on the creation of a Sino-African literary history, which associates eroticism, sometimes pushed to the most extreme and grotesque, and intertextuality. The Sino-African relationship thus allows us to sketch the outline of an « integrated literary history » (Anthony Mangeon, 2015), in which texts fit together as much as bodies.