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Author:

Tissières, Hélène.

Title:

Transmigrational writings between the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa : literature, orality, visual arts / Hélène Colette Tissières ; translated by Marjolijn de Jager.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xvii, 238 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

African literature (French)--History and criticism.
North African literature (French)--History and criticism.
Oral tradition--Africa.
Oral tradition--Africa, North.
Arts, African.
Arts--Africa, North.

Other Authors:

De Jager, Marjolijn.

Other Titles:

Écritures en transhumance entre Maghreb et Afrique subsaharienne. English

Notes:

"Originally published in French as Écritures en transhumance entre Maghreb et Afrique subsaharienne: Littérature, oralité, arts visuels, 2007 Éditions l'Harmattan"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 -- 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.

ISBN:

0813932106 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813932101 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813932092 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813932095 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)781077513

LCCN:

2012009484

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)