Writing through the Visual and Virtual

Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean
Herausgeber: Alidou, Ousseina; Larrier, Renée

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Produktbeschreibung

Writing Through the Visual and Virtual:Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean explores the various cultures of writing in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean, and their relation to literature, orality, language, the visual arts, film, and popular culture. It is an invaluable resource to Francophone and cultural studies alike.

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Produktdetails

• After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 764g
• ISBN-13: 9781498501637
• ISBN-10: 149850163X
• Artikelnr.: 43170914

Autorenporträt

Edited by Renée Larrier and Ousseina Alidou - Contributions by Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum; Gabrielle Civil; Barbara Cooper; Bojana Coulibaly; Rokhaya Fall Diawara; Khady Diène; Oumar Diogoye Diouf; Nathan H. Dize; Gladys M. Francis; Maha Gad El Hak; Boure

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Traditions of Literacy by Renée Larrier and Ousseina D.
Alidou Part I: Visual and Verbal Artistry: Texts and Text[iles] as
Epistemology Chapter 1: Embodying African Women's Epistemology:
International Women's Day Pagnes in Cameroon; Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum
and Anne Patricia Rice Chapter 2: Reading the Téra-tera: Textiles,
Transportation, and Nationalism in Niger's First Republic; Amanda Gilvin
Chapter 3: Becoming Griot: Righting Within a Minor Literature; Oumar
Diogoye Diouf Chapter 4: Research on Droughts and Famines in the Sahel: the
Contribution of Oral Literature; Boureima Alpha Gado Part II: Body
Language/Writing [on] the Body Chapter 5: Transgressive Embodied Writings
of KAribbean Bodies in Pain; Gladys Francis Chapter 6: Alhaji Roaming the
City: Gender, HIV-AIDS and the Performing Arts; Ousseina D. Alidou Chapter
7: Writing on the Visual: Lalla Essaydi's Photographic Tableaux; Donna
Gustafson Chapter 8: Angles of Representation: Photography and the Vision
of al Misriyya [the Egyptian] in Women's Press of the Early Twentieth
Century; Fakhri Haghani Part III: Inscribing Popular Culture Chapter 9:
Representing Adolescent Sexuality in the Sahel; Barbara Cooper Chapter 10:
There's More Than One Way to Make a Ceebu-Jën: Narrating West African
Recipes in Texts; Julie Huntington Chapter 11: Reclamation of the Arena:
Traditional Wrestling in West Africa; Bojana Coulibaly Chapter 12: Ritual
Celebrations: Context of the Development of New African Hybrid Cultures;
Jean-Baptiste Sourou Chapter 13: Simmering Exile; Edwidge Sylvestre-Ceide
Part IV: Language, Literacy, and Education Chapter 14: Writing, Learning
and Teaching Material for Early Childhood Cultures: from Africa to a Global
Context; Rokhaya Fall Diawara Chapter 15: Orthographic Diversity in a World
of Standards: Graphic Representations of Vernacular Arabics in Morocco;
Becky Schulthies Chapter 16: The Polyphonous Classroom: Discourse on
Language-in-Education on Reunion Island; Meghan Tinsley Chapter 17:
Thundering Poetics/Murmuring Poetics: Doing Things With Words as a Marker
of Identity; Laurence Jay-Rayon Part V: Intersections of Text and Image
Chapter 18: Wilson Bigaud's "Les Noces de Cana" [The Wedding at Cana] or
the Meeting of Colonial Heritage and Ancestral Traditions in Haitian Naive
Art; Jean Hérald Legagneur Chapter 19: Tourist Art: A Tracery of the
Visual/Virtual; Gabrielle Civil. Images by Vladimir Cybil Charlier Chapter
20: Religious Iconography in the Daily Life of the Senegalese; Abdoulaye
Elimane Kane Chapter 21: West African Culture in Animation: the Example of
"Kirikou"; Maha Gad El Hak Part VI: Literature, Gender, and Identity
Chapter 22: Power and Patriarchy: Sexual Violence and Sexual Exploitation
in the Francophone and Hispanophone Caribbean Represented in Marie
Vieux-Chauvet's Amour, colère et folie, Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent
sur Télumée Miracle, Rosario Ferré's "La Bella Durmiente," and Nelly
Rosario's El canto del agua; Phuong Hoang Chapter 23: La Mulâtresse During
the Two World Wars: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Suzanne Lacascade's
Claire-Solange, âme-africaine and Mayotte Capécia's Je suis Martiniquaise;
Nathan H. Dize Chapter 24: Inscriptions of Nature from Guadeloupe, Haiti,
and Martinique; Anne Rehill Chapter 25: The Politics of Writing As a Space
to Shape Identity(ies); Khady Diène