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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-Ngi

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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

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      Publisher: Lexington Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/6/2019 12:08:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781498526340, 978-1498526340
      ISBN10: 1498526349

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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-Ngi

      Table of Contents
      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

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