Writing through the Visual and Virtual

Introduction:Traditions of Literacy by Renée Larrier andOusseina D. Alidou<BR /><BR />Part I: Visual and Verbal Artistry: Texts and Text[iles] as Epistemology<BR />Chapter 1: Embodying African Women’s Epistemology: International Women’s Day Pagnes in Cameroon; Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum and Anne Patricia Rice<BR />Chapter 2: Reading the Téra-tera: Textiles Transportation and Nationalism in Niger’s First Republic; Amanda Gilvin<BR />Chapter 3: Becoming Griot: Righting Within a Minor Literature; Oumar Diogoye Diouf<BR />Chapter 4: Research on Droughts and Famines in the Sahel: the Contribution of Oral Literature; Boureima Alpha Gado<BR /><BR />Part II: Body Language/Writing [on] the Body<BR />Chapter 5: Transgressive Embodied Writings of KAribbean Bodies in Pain; Gladys Francis <BR />Chapter 6: Alhaji Roaming the City: Gender HIV-AIDS and the Performing Arts; Ousseina D. Alidou<BR />Chapter 7: Writing on the Visual: Lalla Essaydi’s Photographic Tableaux; Donna Gustafson<BR />Chapter 8: Angles of Representation: Photography and the Vision of al Misriyya [the Egyptian] in Women’s Press of the Early Twentieth Century; Fakhri Haghani<BR /><BR />Part III: Inscribing Popular Culture<BR />Chapter 9: Representing Adolescent Sexuality in the Sahel; Barbara Cooper<BR />Chapter 10: There's More Than One Way to Make a Ceebu-Jën: Narrating West African Recipes in Texts; Julie Huntington<BR />Chapter 11: Reclamation of the Arena: Traditional Wrestling in West Africa; Bojana Coulibaly<BR />Chapter 12: Ritual Celebrations: Context of the Development of New African Hybrid Cultures; Jean-Baptiste Sourou<BR />Chapter 13: Simmering Exile; Edwidge Sylvestre-Ceide<BR /><BR />Part IV: Language Literacy and Education<BR />Chapter 14: WritingLearning and Teaching Material for Early Childhood Cultures: from Africa to a Global Context; Rokhaya Fall Diawara<BR />Chapter 15: Orthographic Diversity in a World of Standards: Graphic Representations of Vernacular Arabics in Morocco; Becky Schulthies<BR />Chapter 16: The Polyphonous Classroom: Discourse on Language-in-Education on Reunion Island; Meghan Tinsley<BR />Chapter 17: Thundering Poetics/Murmuring Poetics: Doing Things With Words as a Marker of Identity; Laurence Jay-Rayon<BR /><BR />Part V: Intersections of Text and Image<BR />Chapter 18: Wilson Bigaud’s “Les Noces de Cana” [The Wedding at Cana]or the Meeting of Colonial Heritage and Ancestral Traditions in Haitian Naive Art; Jean Hérald Legagneur<BR />Chapter 19: Tourist Art: A Tracery of the Visual/Virtual;Gabrielle Civil. Images by Vladimir Cybil Charlier<BR />Chapter 20: Religious Iconography in the Daily Life of the Senegalese; Abdoulaye Elimane Kane <BR />Chapter21:West African Culture in Animation: the Example of “Kirikou”; Maha Gad El Hak<BR /><BR />Part VI: Literature Gender and Identity<BR />Chapter 22: Power and Patriarchy: Sexual Violence and Sexual Exploitation in the Francophone and Hispanophone Caribbean Represented in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s 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 Hoang<BR />Chapter 23: La 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. Dize<BR />Chapter 24: Inscriptions of Nature from Guadeloupe Haiti and Martinique; Anne Rehill<BR />Chapter 25: The Politics of Writing As a Space to Shape Identity(ies); Khady Diène<BR />