The Desert Shore : : Literatures of the Sahel / / ed. by Christopher Wise.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Gugelberger, Georg M.,; Hawad,,; Kilpatrick, Sean,; Lovejoy, Paul E.,; McNee, Lisa,; Ouédraogo, Albert,; Pacéré, Titinga Frédéric,; Paré, Joseph,; Sanou, Salaka,; Sékou Tall, al-Hajj,; Tall, al-Hajj Sékou,; Tinguiri, Michel,; Wise, Christopher,; Zongo, Norbert,
• HerausgeberIn: Wise, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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