Transmigrational writings between the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa literature, orality, visual arts
By: Helene Colette Tissieres ; translated by Marjolijn de Jager
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780813932095; 9780813932101
Subjects: African literature (French); North African literature (French); History and criticism; Performing arts; Oral tradition
Work titles: Écritures en transhumance entre Maghreb et Afrique subsaharienne
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.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Circulatory movement and flow; title: Circulatory flow between the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa: geographic, historical, and artistic links; title: On-screen and off-screen connections: the spoken and its flaws; title: Verbal flow between orality and writing: widening the spectrum; title: Aesthetic flow between visual and written art: multiplying the sites; title: Pt. 2. Voyages and voices of the unspoken; title: Abdelwahab Meddeb: phantasia, or the crossing of references, discord, and the heterogeneous; title: Werewere liking: it shall be of jasper and coral, song-novel, and Orphee-dafric, ritual-novel; title: interconnecting art forms; title: Tchicaya U Tam'Si: the madman and the medusa; title: games of inscription and erasure; title: Assia Djebar: women of Algiers in their apartment and fantasia: an Algerian cavalcade; title: palimpsest memory; title: Conclusion.