Writing through the Visual and Virtual
Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean
Contributions by Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum Lehman College, CUNY, Gabrielle Civil Antioch College, Barbara Cooper Rutgers University, Bojana Coulibaly, Rokhaya Fall Diawara, Khady Diène, Oumar Diogoye Diouf, Nathan H. Dize, Gladys M. Francis Howard University, Maha Gad El Hak Cairo University, Boureima Alpha Gado Abdou Moumouni University, Amanda Gilvin, Donna Gustafson, Fakhri Haghani Rutgers University, Phuong Hoang, Julie Huntington Marymount Manhattan College, Laurence Jay-Rayon, Abdoulaye Elimane Kane, Jean Hérald Legagneur, Anne Rehill, Anne Patricia Rice Lehman College, CUNY, Edwige Sylvestre-Ceide, Becky Schulthies Rutgers University, Jean-Baptiste Sourou, Meghan Tinsley Edited by Renée Larrier, Ousseina Alidou
Publication date:
12 November 2015Length of book:
428 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
237x159mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781498501637
Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean 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/literature/arts and the visual and virtual domains of expressive culture. The twenty-five essays explore various patterns of writing practices arising from contemporary and historical forces that have impacted the literatures and cultures of Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Morocco, Niger, Reunion Island, and Senegal. Special attention is paid to how scripts, though appearing to be merely decorative in function, are often used by artists and performers in the production of material and non-material culture to tell “stories” of great significance, co-mingling words and images in a way that leads to a creative synthesis that links the local and the global, the “classical” and the “popular” in new ways.