Transmigrational writings between the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa : literature, orality, visual arts /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tissières, Hélène
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Circulatory movement and flow
  • Circulatory flow between the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa: geographic, historical, and artistic links
  • On-screen and off-screen connections: the spoken and its flaws
  • Verbal flow between orality and writing: widening the spectrum
  • Aesthetic flow between visual and written art: multiplying the sites
  • Pt. 2. Voyages and voices of the unspoken
  • Abdelwahab Meddeb: phantasia, or the crossing of references, discord, and the heterogeneous
  • Werewere liking: it shall be of jasper and coral, song-novel, and Orphee-dafric, ritual-novel
  • interconnecting art forms
  • Tchicaya U Tam'Si: the madman and the medusa
  • games of inscription and erasure
  • Assia Djebar: women of Algiers in their apartment and fantasia: an Algerian cavalcade
  • Palimpsest memory
  • Conclusion.