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Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Traditions of Literacy by Renée Larrier and Ousseina D. AlidouPart I: Visual and Verbal Artistry: Texts and Text[iles] as EpistemologyChapter 1: Embodying African Women's Epistemology: International Women's Day Pagnes in Cameroon; Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum and Anne Patricia RiceChapter 2: Reading the Téra-tera: Textiles, Transportation, and Nationalism in Niger's First Republic; Amanda GilvinChapter 3: Becoming Griot: Righting Within a Minor Literature; Oumar Diogoye DioufChapter 4: Research on Droughts and Famines in the Sahel: the Contribution of Oral Literature; Boureima Alpha GadoPart II: Body Language/Writing [on] the BodyChapter 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. AlidouChapter 7: Writing on the Visual: Lalla Essaydi's Photographic Tableaux; Donna GustafsonChapter 8: Angles of Representation: Photography and the Vision of al Misriyya [the Egyptian] in Women's Press of the Early Twentieth Century; Fakhri HaghaniPart III: Inscribing Popular CultureChapter 9: Representing Adolescent Sexuality in the Sahel; Barbara CooperChapter 10: There's More Than One Way to Make a Ceebu-Jën: Narrating West African Recipes in Texts; Julie HuntingtonChapter 11: Reclamation of the Arena: Traditional Wrestling in West Africa; Bojana CoulibalyChapter 12: Ritual Celebrations: Context of the Development of New African Hybrid Cultures; Jean-Baptiste SourouChapter 13: Simmering Exile; Edwidge Sylvestre-CeidePart IV: Language, Literacy, and EducationChapter 14: Writing, Learning and Teaching Material for Early Childhood Cultures: from Africa to a Global Context; Rokhaya Fall DiawaraChapter 15: Orthographic Diversity in a World of Standards: Graphic Representations of Vernacular Arabics in Morocco; Becky SchulthiesChapter 16: The Polyphonous Classroom: Discourse on Language-in-Education on Reunion Island; Meghan TinsleyChapter 17: Thundering Poetics/Murmuring Poetics: Doing Things With Words as a Marker of Identity; Laurence Jay-RayonPart V: Intersections of Text and ImageChapter 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 LegagneurChapter 19: Tourist Art: A Tracery of the Visual/Virtual; Gabrielle Civil. Images by Vladimir Cybil CharlierChapter 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 HakPart VI: Literature, Gender, and IdentityChapter 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...
