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Writing Through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language,
Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean
interrogates conventional notions of writing. The
contributors-whose disciplines include anthropology, art history,
education, film, history, linguistics, literature, performance
studies, philosophy, sociology, translation, and visual
arts-examine the complex interplay between language/literature/arts
and the visual and virtual domains of expressive culture. The
twenty-five essays explore various patterns of writing practices
arising from contemporary and historical forces that have impacted
the literatures and cultures of Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire,
Egypt, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Morocco, Niger, Reunion
Island, and Senegal. Special attention is paid to how scripts,
though appearing to be merely decorative in function, are often
used by artists and performers in the production of material and
non-material culture to tell "stories" of great significance,
co-mingling words and images in a way that leads to a creative
synthesis that links the local and the global, the "classical" and
the "popular" in new ways.
Larrier breaks new ground in analyzing first-person narratives by
five Francophone Caribbean writers - Joseph Zobel, Patrick
Chamoiseau, Gisele Pineau, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Conde -
that manifest distinctive interaction among narrators,
protagonists, characters, and readers through a layering of voices,
languages, time, sources, and identities. Employing the Martinican
combat dance - danmye - as a trope, the author argues that these
narratives can be read as testimony to the legacy of slavery,
colonialism, and patriarchy that denied Caribbean people their
subjectivity. In chapters devoted to Zobel, Chamoiseau, Pineau,
Danticat, and Conde - who come from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and
Haiti - Larrier probes the presence, construction, and strategy of
the first-person narrator, which sometimes shifts within the text
itself. Providing a perspective different from European travel
literature, these texts deliberately position the ""I"" as a
witness and/or performer who articulates experiences ignored or
misinterpreted by sojourners' more widely circulated chronicles.
While not purporting to speak for others, the ""I"" is concerned
with transmitting what he or she saw, heard, experienced, or
endured, therefore disrupting conventional representations of the
Francophone Caribbean. Moreover, in modeling authenticity and
agency, autofiction is also a form of advocacy.
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