| Description |
1 online resource (x, 273 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the land of the blood-boiling sun / Christopher Wise and Joseph Paré -- The origins of the Fulani / al Hajj Sékou Tall -- The word beyond the word: Pacéré's theory of talking drums / Christopher Wise -- Saglego, or durum Poem (for the Sahel) / Titinga Frédéric Pacéré -- Bendrology in question / Albert Ouédraogo -- Animism, syncretis, and hardness: the epic of Askia Mohammed / Sean Kilpatrick -- Tuareg (Tamazight) literature and resistance: the case of Hawad / Georg M. Gugelberger -- Anarchy's delirious trek: a Tuareg epic / Hawad -- The black and the white: race and oral poetry in Mauritania / Lisa McNee -- Literature and a form of intellectual ascent: the writings of Patrick G. Ilboudo / Salaka Sanou -- Norbert Zongo: the committed writer / Michel Tinguiri -- The mobutuization of Burkina Faso / Norbert Zongo -- Writing Timbuktu: Park's hat, Laing's hand / Christopher Wise -- The Bello-Clapperton exhange: the Sokoto Jihad and the transatlantic slave trade / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Wanderings: Bamako, Moscow, Delhi / al-Hajj Sékou Tall -- Reflections in conclusion: bridging the shore / Christopher Wise. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African literature -- History and criticism.
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African literature. |
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Sahel -- In literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wise, Christopher, 1961-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Desert shore. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001 (DLC) 00045984 (OCoLC)45195563 |
| ISBN |
9781626373310 (electronic book) |
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1626373310 (electronic book) |
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0894108670 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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9780894108679 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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