Renée Larrier
Introduction:Traditions of Literacy by Renée Larrier andOusseina D. AlidouPart I: Visual and Verbal Artistry: Texts and Text[iles] as EpistemologyChapter 1: Embodying African Women’s Epistemology: International Women’s Day Pagnes in Cameroon; Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum and Anne Patricia RiceChapter 2: Reading the Téra-tera: Textiles, Transportation, and Nationalism in Niger’s First Republic; Amanda GilvinChapter 3: Becoming Griot: Righting Within a Minor Literature; Oumar Diogoye DioufChapter 4: Research on Droughts and Famines in the Sahel: the Contribution of Oral Literature; Boureima Alpha GadoPart II: Body Language/Writing [on] the BodyChapter 5: Transgressive Embodied Writings of KAribbean Bodies in Pain; Gladys Francis Chapter 6: Alhaji Roaming the City: Gender, HIV-AIDS and the Performing Arts; Ousseina D. AlidouChapter 7: Writing on the Visual: Lalla Essaydi’s Photographic Tableaux; Donna GustafsonChapter 8: Angles of Representation: Photography and the Vision of al Misriyya [the Egyptian] in Women’s Press of the Early Twentieth Century; Fakhri HaghaniPart III: Inscribing Popular CultureChapter 9: Representing Adolescent Sexuality in the Sahel; Barbara CooperChapter 10: There's More Than One Way to Make a Ceebu-Jën: Narrating West African Recipes in Texts; Julie HuntingtonChapter 11: Reclamation of the Arena: Traditional Wrestling in West Africa; Bojana CoulibalyChapter 12: Ritual Celebrations: Context of the Development of New African Hybrid Cultures; Jean-Baptiste SourouChapter 13: Simmering Exile; Edwidge Sylvestre-CeidePart IV: Language, Literacy, and EducationChapter 14: Writing,Learning and Teaching Material for Early Childhood Cultures: from Africa to a Global Context; Rokhaya Fall DiawaraChapter 15: Orthographic Diversity in a World of Standards: Graphic Representations of Vernacular Arabics in Morocco; Becky SchulthiesChapter 16: The Polyphonous Classroom: Discourse on Language-in-Education on Reunion Island; Meghan TinsleyChapter 17: Thundering Poetics/Murmuring Poetics: Doing Things With Words as a Marker of Identity; Laurence Jay-RayonPart V: Intersections of Text and ImageChapter 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 LegagneurChapter 19: Tourist Art: A Tracery of the Visual/Virtual;Gabrielle Civil. Images by Vladimir Cybil CharlierChapter 20: Religious Iconography in the Daily Life of the Senegalese; Abdoulaye Elimane Kane Chapter21:West African Culture in Animation: the Example of “Kirikou”; Maha Gad El HakPart VI: Literature, Gender, and IdentityChapter 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 HoangChapter 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. DizeChapter 24: Inscriptions of Nature from Guadeloupe, Haiti, and Martinique; Anne RehillChapter 25: The Politics of Writing As a Space to Shape Identity(ies); Khady Diène
