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Filiations textuelles, nationales et culturelles : les genres littéraires en contexte postcolonial
2018
Introduction
2018
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Un post-humain post-apartheid ? Moxyland et Zoo Fiction de Lauren Beukes
2014
International audience
Le "changement de langue" d’Antjie Krog : "Babel heureuse"?
2010
This article examines the relationship between Afrikaans and English in post-apartheid South Africa though the prism of a specific example, Antjie Krog's Change of Tongue, whose generic and linguistic statuses plays on ambiguity and bilingualism.
Guérir les blessures de l'Afrique du Sud
2009
On the eve of the democratic elections scheduled in South Africa in 2009, this collection of essays analyses the many ways in which South Africans have been trying to heal the wounds of apartheid, as advocated in Nelson Mandela’s famous 1994 speech, delivered at the dawn of the ‘ new ’ South Africa. The articles encompass such diverse fields as politics, literature, cinema, welfare policies or education, and they all seek to explore the sea change which totally reshaped South African identity in the last fifteen years that followed the demise of apartheid. The notion of ‘ healing the wounds’ is used both as a pretext and as a focal point to build up as complete a picture as possible of Sout…
Identité et espace chez André Brink: Looking on Darkness, Rumours of Rain et Imaginings of Sand
2007
This article explores André Brink's conception of identity in terms of space. Examining three novels which all revolve around a first-person narrator exploring his/her own identity, Looking on Darkness, Rumours of Rain and Imaginings of Sand, it shows that Brink's conception of identity is both spatial and familial: characters try to become "rooted" in South African soil, but this rooting process is achieved only in the post-apartheid novel, Imaginings of Sand. A brief comparison with Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon tries to shed light on the source of Brink's spatial conception of identity.
La littérature sud-africaine pendant et après l'apartheid. Table ronde avec André Brink, Denise Coussy, Jean Guiloineau et Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
2005
Transcript of a round table on South African literature, during and after apartheid, with particular focus on the links between literature and reality.
Para uma cooperação da escuta e do movimento: Estudo intercultural sobre a percepção dos ritmos tradicionais do Xangô (Olinda, PE)
2010
Combining musical cognition and ethnomusicological approaches, this article seeks to verify if the capacity of recognizing and actually doing the appropriate beat of musical rhythms after listening to musical excerpts is influenced by the movements of the body. We would like to show to what extent variables like "musical competence" ("musicians" and "non-musicians") and "cultural origin" ("Brazilians" and "French") do influence such capacity. We try to answer these questions by applying an experimental protocol designed for that end. The musical rhythms used in the experiment are drawn from the musical and religious traditions of the xangô african-brazilian cult, as they are practiced in Ol…
A “participação africana” num desporto olímpico: Lutas espaciais e questões de nacionalidade
2016
Cet article analyse les stratégies de reconnaissance d’une discipline olympique : le canoë de slalom. Il interroge en particulier les processus de diffusion de ce sport en Afrique en étudiant précisément sa place en tant que discipline au sein du mouvement olympique. Mais comment la diffusion d’un sport parmi les pays africains peut-elle cristalliser des enjeux nationaux ? Pour comprendre la complexité de cet objet, le remaniement des aires culturelles issues du joug des empires coloniaux est interrogé. Il s’agit d’inscrire les perceptions de la participation olympique dans les rivalités où elles s’inscrivent depuis les Indépendances. L’enquête restitue l’apport de la nationalité comme crit…
From abugida to alphabet in Konso, Ethiopia
2019
Abstract This study examines the interplay between phonological awareness and orthography in Konso, a Cushitic language in Southwest Ethiopia. Thirty-two adults reading the Konso abugida but with minimal exposure to alphabetic literacy completed an orally administered phoneme deletion task. The responses were then examined using the minimal edit distance hypothesis (Wali, Sproat, Padakannaya & Bhuvaneshwari, 2009) as a framework for the analysis. The results suggest that the difficulty of a deletion was related to the way the phoneme was represented in the Konso abugida. Content-based error analysis of the incorrect responses gave indications of how Konso abugida readers’ processing of …