Writing through the Visual and Virtual (eBook)

Renée Larrier is professor and chair of the Department of French at Rutgers University New Brunswick.Ousseina D. Alidou is professor in the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University New Brunswick.

Introduction: Traditions of Literacy by Renée Larrier and Ousseina D. Alidou Pagnes in Cameroon; Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum and Anne Patricia RiceTéra-tera: Textiles, Transportation, and Nationalism in Niger’s First Republic; Amanda GilvinChapter 4: Research on Droughts and Famines in the Sahel: the Contribution of Oral Literature; Boureima Alpha GadoChapter 6: Alhaji Roaming the City: Gender, HIV-AIDS and the Performing Arts; Ousseina D. AlidouChapter 8: Angles of Representation: Photography and the Vision of al Misriyya [the Egyptian] in Women’s Press of the Early Twentieth Century; Fakhri HaghaniChapter 10: There's More Than One Way to Make a Ceebu-Jën: Narrating West African Recipes in Texts; Julie HuntingtonChapter 12: Ritual Celebrations: Context of the Development of New African Hybrid Cultures; Jean-Baptiste Sourou Learning and Teaching Material for Early Childhood Cultures: from Africa to a Global Context; Rokhaya Fall DiawaraChapter 16: The Polyphonous Classroom: Discourse on Language-in-Education on Reunion Island; Meghan TinsleyThe Wedding at Cana] or the Meeting of Colonial Heritage and Ancestral Traditions in Haitian Naive Art; Jean Hérald LegagneurTourist Art: A Tracery of the Visual/Virtual;Gabrielle Civil. Images by Vladimir Cybil CharlierChapter 21: West African Culture in Animation: the Example of “Kirikou”; Maha Gad El Hak 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 HoangLa 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. DizeChapter 25: The Politics of Writing As a Space to Shape Identity(ies); Khady Diène