Writing through the Visual and Virtual
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Writing through the Visual and Virtual

Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean

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eBook - ePub

Writing through the Visual and Virtual

Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Writing through the Visual and Virtual by Renée Larrier,Ousseina Alidou in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781498501644
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover-Page
  2. Half-Title
  3. Part I: Visual and Verbal Artistry: Texts and Text[iles] as Epistemology
  4. Part II: Body Language/Writing [on] the Body
  5. Part III: Inscribing Popular Culture
  6. Part IV: Language, Literacy, and Education
  7. Part V: Intersections of Text and Image
  8. Part VI: Literature, Gender, and Identity
  9. Index
  10. About the Contributors