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Gugelberger, Georg M. [Contributor]; Hawad [Contributor]; Kilpatrick, Sean [Contributor]; Lovejoy, Paul E. [Contributor]; McNee, Lisa [Contributor]; Ouédraogo, Albert [Contributor]; Pacéré, Titinga Frédéric [Contributor]; Paré, Joseph [Contributor]; Sanou, Salaka [Contributor]; Sékou Tall, al-Hajj [Contributor]; Tall, al-Hajj Sékou [Contributor]; Tinguiri, Michel [Contributor]; Wise, Christopher [Contributor]; Wise, Christopher [Editor]; Zongo, Norbert [Contributor]

The Desert Shore

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The Desert Shore : Literatures of the Sahel
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Contents
    Acknowledgments
    1 Introduction: The Land of the Blood-Boiling Sun
    Part 1. Literature and “Sahelity”
    2 The Origins of the Fulani
    3 The Word Beyond the Word: Pacéré’s Theory of Talking Drums
    4 Saglego, or Drum Poem (for the Sahel)
    5 Bendrology in Question
    6 Animism, Syncretism, and Hardness: The Epic of Askia Mohammed
    Part 2. Race, Politics, and Writing in the Sahel Zone
    7 Tuareg (Tamazight) Literature and Resistance: The Case of Hawad
    8 Anarchy’s Delirious Trek: A Tuareg Epic
    9 The Black and the White: Race and Oral Poetry in Mauritania
    10 Literature as a Form of Intellectual Ascent: The Writings of Patrick G. Ilboudo
    11 Norbert Zongo: The Committed Writer
    12 The Mobutuization of Burkina Faso
    Part 3. Rethinking Sahelian Travel Writing
    13 Writing Timbuktu: Park’s Hat, Laing’s Hand
    14 The Bello-Clapperton Exchange: The Sokoto Jihad and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
    15 Wanderings: Bamako, Moscow, Delhi
    Part 4. Conclusion
    16 Reflections in Conclusion: Bridging the Shore
    Works Cited
    The Contributors
    Index
    About the Book
  • Contributor: Hawad [MitwirkendeR]; Gugelberger, Georg M. [MitwirkendeR]; Kilpatrick, Sean [MitwirkendeR]; Lovejoy, Paul E. [MitwirkendeR]; McNee, Lisa [MitwirkendeR]; Ouédraogo, Albert [MitwirkendeR]; Pacéré, Titinga Frédéric [MitwirkendeR]; Paré, Joseph [MitwirkendeR]; Sanou, Salaka [MitwirkendeR]; Sékou Tall, al-Hajj [MitwirkendeR]; Tall, al-Hajj Sékou [MitwirkendeR]; Tinguiri, Michel [MitwirkendeR]; Wise, Christopher [MitwirkendeR]; Wise, Christopher [HerausgeberIn]; Zongo, Norbert [MitwirkendeR]
  • imprint: Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (278 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9781626373310
  • ISBN: 9781626373310
  • Identifier:
  • Keywords: African literature History and criticism ; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: Though Sahelian culture likely dates back more than five thousand years—encompassing Africa's greatest empires—the Sahel remains little known in the English-speaking world. Redressing this situation, The Desert Shore offers a rich sampling of the contemporary literatures of the region, along with contextualizing chapters by critics from Africa, Europe, and North America. The authors not only demonstrate the resilience and cultural wealth of modern Sahelian society, but also provide startling insights into its distinct perspectives on writing, literature, and language itself. They reveal Sahelian literatures to be a body of work that challenges Western scholars to reexamine many of their deepest presuppositions
  • Access State: Restricted Access | Information to licenced electronic resources of the SLUB