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Writing through the visual and virtual : inscribing language, literature, and culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean /

This book interrogates conventional notions of writing. The contributors-whose disciplines include anthropology, art history, education, film, history, linguistics, literature, performance studies, philosophy, sociology, translation, and visual arts-examine the complex interplay between language/lit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Larrier, Renée Brenda (Editor ), Alidou, Ousseina (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
Colección:After the empire.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Traditions of Literacy by Renee 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 Tera-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-Jen: 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 Herald 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, colere et folie, Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Telumee Miracle, Rosario Ferre's "La Bella Durmiente," and Nelly Rosario's El canto del agua; Phuong Hoang
  • Chapter 23: La Mulatresse During the Two World Wars: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Suzanne Lacascade's Claire-Solange, ame-africaine and Mayotte Capecia'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 Diene.