"The original explosion that created worlds"
Subtitle: essays on Werewere Liking's art and writings
By: edited by John Conteh-Morgan and Irène Assiba d'Almeida
Series: Franco poly phonies -- 8
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9789042029712
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "The Original Explosion That Created Worlds" is the first book entirely devoted to the Cameroonian Werewere Liking, one of the most important writers and innovative artists of post-colonial Africa. The book includes a wide-ranging collection of essays by.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-356) and index.

Also available online.

Includes some text in French.
Table of contents: title: Aesthetics of necessity in the age of globalization : the Ki-Yi village as a new social movement  -- Michelle Mielly; title: Werewere Liking and artistic synthesis : a postcolonial practice?  -- Peter Hawkins; title: Un-masking the mediator : Werewere Liking's flashes of light  -- Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi; title: Parole du Mbombock : au-delâ des problématiques féministe et francophone  -- Yvette Balana; title: Recycling the past : myth and history in Liking's work  -- Eloise A. Brière; title: Mémoire amputée, ou comment raconter les silences de l'Afrique  -- Odile Cazenave; title: Amour-cent-vies : dans la mouvance du voyage et des entrelacs  -- Hélène Tissières; title: Werewere Liking, Liquid heroes (Héros d'eau)  -- Transl. Judith Miller; title: Liquid heroes : a commentary  -- Judith Miller; title: Rehearsal is the play : dramatic self-reflexivity and This Africa of ours ...  -- John Conteh-Morgan; title: Werewere Liking, this Africa of ours : (quelque chose : Afrique) (excerpts) / Transl. John Conteh Morgan --; title: Au commencement était le ver(s)  -- Joseph E. Mwantuali; title: Poésie transgénérique de Werewere Liking  -- Séwanou Dabla; title: Translating Werewere Liking : speaking pictures, seeing words  -- Marjolijn de Jager; title: Translating echoes : a joyride into Werewere Liking's ritual drama  -- Jeanne N. Dingomé; title: Translating texts that play : Elle sera de jaspe et de corail and its translations into English  -- Kathryn Batchelor; title: "Misovire" et la critique : la réception des oeuvres de Werewere Liking -- Irène Assiba d'Almeida.