Daniela Merolla

Mark Turin

"In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary heritage with the people who are represented by and in it. Expert contributors interweave sociological analysis with an appraisal of the transformative impact of technology on literary and cultural production. Does technology restrict, constraining the experience of an oral performance, or does it afford new openings for different aesthetic experiences? Topics explored include the Mara Cultural Heritage Digital Library, the preservation of Ewe heritage material, new eresources for texts in Manding languages, and the possibilities of technauriture. This timely and necessary collection also examines to what extent digital documents can be and have been institutionalised in archives and museums, how digital heritage can remain free from co-option by hegemonic groups, and the roles that exist for community voices. A valuable contribution to a fast-developing field, this book is required reading for scholars and students in the fields of heritage, anthropology, linguistics, history and the emerging disciplines of multi-media documentation and analysis, as well as those working in the field of literature, folklore, and African studies. It is also important reading for museum and archive curators." This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Searching for Sharing

Cultural Strategies in the Oral and in the Written

Gender and Community in the Kabyle Literary Space

Sandra Ponzanesi

In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude toward new flows of immigrations. Issues of boundaries and identity have been integral to this reflection. Through a magnificent collection of essays, Migrant Cartographies examines both sites and conflicts and the way in which forms of belonging and identity have been reinvented. With careful analysis and exceptional insight, this volume explores the most recent literature on migration as seen from different European viewpoints. This book fills a conspicuous void in migration literature, as there are no comprehensive books on migrant literatures in Europe that address the full range of complexities of colonial legacies and linguistic productions.

New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-colonial Europe

Migrant Cartographies

In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude towards new flows of immigrations. Issues of boundaries and identity have been integral to this reflection. Through a magnificent collection of essays, Migrant Cartographies examines both sites and conflicts and the way in which forms of belonging and identity have been reinvented.

New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-Colonial Europe

Kamal Nait Zerad

Amar Ameziane

Cet ouvrage est le premier à traiter l’ensemble de la production cinématographique berbère. Des histoires qui nous viennent des mythes, des récits de l’histoire contemporaine, des personnages dramatiques ou comiques, qui participent à la représentation et à l’auto-perception d’être « Imazighen/Berbères », sont présentés et analysés sous la plume de spécialistes et de jeunes chercheurs en études berbères. L’apparition des premiers films amazighs (berbères) a été tardive du fait de la méconnaissance du berbère par les États nationaux au Maghreb jusqu’aux années 1990. Cependant, des réalisateurs ont eu le courage de persévérer et, depuis quelques années, des films en langue amazighe (berbère) jouissent d’une reconnaissance internationale, comme pour La Maison jaune / Axxam awragh (2007) d’Amor Hakkar et Adiós Carmen (2013) de Mohamed Amin Benamraoui, tous deux primés respectivement au Festival international du film de Locarno (2007) et au Festival international du cinéma méditerranéen de Montpellier (2014). Les films primés participent de l’une des deux formes d’expression filmique en amazigh : les longs-métrages « grand écran ». La seconde modalité est celle des « films vidéo » en format VHS et VCD qui, bien que représentant une production très vivace de culture populaire, sont souvent maltraités par la critique journalistique. Les contributions de cet ouvrage explorent les films amazighs dans une perspective interdisciplinaire en fournissant au public des clés de lecture sur les recherches esthétiques et la construction identitaire qui sont au centre de la narration filmique, ainsi que sur les aspects sociologiques et économiques de la production. La question centrale posée est la suivante : « Peut-on parler de cinéma amazigh ? ». Cet ouvrage ouvre le débat.

De la méconnaissance aux festivals nationaux

Les cinémas berbères

Kamal Naït-Zerrad

Jan Jansen

This book approaches a central concern of oral literature studies worldwide, with a special focus on Africa: how to deal with oral genres in a world where new technologies have become available to more and more people? As the book asserts, what is new is that the spotlight is directed towards (old and new) "interlocutors" who cooperate in the making of technologized oral genres in an increasingly technologized world. Their interactions affect the performance, as well as research - their roles and positions raise methodological and ethical questions particularly when local/national identities and commercial interests are at stake. (Series: African Studies / Afrikanische Studien - Vol. 45)

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