R H Mitsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 6403792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R H Mitsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | R H |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitsch |
| SIGNATURE | MITSCH R H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 0 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lettres maliennes
Muk nd
The mukàndà/leetrè, a form of heroic Luba-Kasayi poetry that is of relatively recent origin, testifies to the vitality, dynamism, and the adaptive capability of oral literature. Contrary to indications in its name and the name given its producer—leetrè/mukàndà (letter), mubadi/mwedi wa mukàndà (reader, promoter of mukàndà)—this literary form is declaimed rather than read, before a participating public, by a male performer, at events that have the…
The Aesthetics of Degradation in Haitian Literature
Between the end of the American Occupation in Haïti (1934) an the beginning of the Duvalier regime in the 1960s, Haitian literature is posited around three codes of positive reference: indigenism, magical realism, and Marxism. The obscurantism and totalitarianism of the Duvalier dictatorship (1957-86) with its spiral of underdevelopment and its destructive and destructuring tendencies, left a mark on both the environment and the imaginary. The sy…
Postcolonial Mythologies
The movements for cultural and political emancipation that led to the abolition of slavery as well as the independences grew out of a charismatic scenario, which in this essay means that the struggle for freedom was centered around a charismatic figure. Postcolonial mythologies are thus to be understood as an attempt to re-appropriate decolonization through the formulation of a new imaginary in the postcolony. The present study intends to analyze…
Mongo Beti and the Responsibility of the African Intellectual
Someday, the history of the African intellectual must be written. The confusion created by this term in numerous debates on the continent is such that it will not be simple for those who would like to launch this project to easily untangle the web. Management leaders, executives, and university graduates of all kinds claim to be intellectuals, undoubtedly because of the prestige the word carries. As Michel Winock has shown in Le siècle des intell…
Life, Sovereignty, and Terror in the Fiction of Amos Tutuola
The remarks that follow bear upon the general question of life, sovereignty, and terror. To my mind, life does not exist in-and-of-itself. It does not reflect a generic property per se, but a mode of being-in-the-world, that is, a way of inhabiting the world; in short, a manner of confrontation and familiarity with the world and its full range of potentialities. The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and t…
Mongo Beti and the ?Curse? of Ham
Research in African Literatures - Volume 33, Number 2, Summer 2002
Lilyan Kesteloot and the History of African Literature
Guy Ossito Midiohouan, R. H. Mitsch, Lilyan Kesteloot and the History of African Literature, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 33, No. 4, Special Issue: Léopold Sédar Senghor (Winter, 2002), pp. 180-198
Remember Mongo Beti (1932-2001)
station, Radio Alternance, to promote creativity and freedom of expres? sion. Furthermore, he had promised to donate to this project the honoraria he was to receive from Boston University, Harvard, Tufts, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology during his engagements there from 20 October through 4 November 2001. Since his retirement from public service in France in 1994, Mongo Beti had settled back in Cameroon and put all his energies into sev…
Birago Diop's Poetic Contribution to the Ideology of Negritude
In his only collection of poems, Leurres et lueurs, Senegalese author Birago Diop (1906-89) offers a dense and penetrating poetry on the states of consciousness of the poetic "I" and on African ontological conception, two thematic axes that reveal a paradox in the writer. Birago Diop's poetic activity was marked from its very beginnings primarily by an eloquence found in the French masters, such as Victor Hugo and Alfred de Musset. As a Romantic …
Senghor in Context
W\iAT11thout resorting to emotional hagiography, the image of Leopold / Sdar Senghor that will be retained will be that of an intellectual and a politician of character and quality. Senghor forged for himself the personality of a man of determination and decision, and he saw himself as a man who was faithful to his ideas, to his friends, and to his own choices. The average Senegalese said of him, Lu Mu Matt Mu Dog, that is, He never yielded, once…
Creolist Mystification
Glissant's Africas
Africa's disillusionment with its independences has set the continent in a series of contradictions and problems that have left in their wake bloody tyrannies, interminable civil wars, cyclical famines, or unspeakable genocides that often threaten the very survival of entire com? munities. The postcolonial ravages experienced in Haiti and the other independent countries of the Antilles and Africa are turning the tomor? rows of decolonization into…
The Myth of Ruben
After his anticolonial phase of the 1950s, Mongo Beti transformed himself into a crusader against neocolonialism on the threshold of the '70s. In the opinion of numerous critics, the writer traded his caustic temperament for a foul temper. More precisely, Main basse sur le Cameroun marks a fundamental turning point in Mongo Beti's literary career. Indeed, never since that pamphlet, has the writer abandoned that ideological bias, provocative gravi…
Gestural Interpretation of the Occult in the Bin Kadi-So Adaptation of Macbeth
The Bin Kadi-So adaptation of Macbeth 1 explores different levels of reality that lead us to participate in an occult world, where everything occurs in a muted atmosphere and the essentials of action are woven together. In that mysterious universe that Tradition reveals to us by facilitating its communication with our plane of existence, we can study the actor's gestural performance when his or her eyes encounter the unseen, ears the unheard, and…
Theatricality and Social Mimodrama
Textbook definitions of theater are often based on "performance" and necessarily limit it to the play. It is therefore appropriate to reflect on the principle of "performance" as the objective and aim of drama. That same definition, however, does not pay sufficient attention to the implications of "scenography." Unconditional factors deal with the relationship that must be established between the actors, on one hand, and the audience, on the othe…
Bin Kadi-So and Dramatic Innovation
around 1938 within the framework of the Ecole William Ponty the? ater, a legacy of French colonization. Numerous talents, including Bernard B. Dadie, achieved fame on the theater stage with such plays as Assemien Dehyle roi du Sanwi and Kouao Adjoba. Designed essentially as enter? tainment, Ponty plays served as fertile soil for the cultural creations that were to be born in the 1960s. Sociopolitical conditions imposed a new orientation, both the…
Women's Writing between Two Algerian Wars
Women’s Writing between Two Algerian Wars Benjamin Stora (bio) Translated by R. H. Mitsch (bio) Friday, 10 April 1998: the Algerian television program “Right to Life” (“Le droit à la vie”) opens with the testimony of women who have been wounded and tortured. Horra, a mother of eight, recounts her terrible story. Abducted by three men, held captive for three weeks, she suffered the worst of physical, psychological, and sexual abuses. She says that…
Life, Sovereignty, and Terror in the Fiction of Amos Tutuola
The remarks that follow bear upon the general question of life, sovereignty, and terror. To my mind, life does not exist in-and-of-itself. It does not reflect a generic property per se, but a mode of being-in-the-world, that is, a way of inhabiting the world; in short, a manner of confrontation and familiarity with the world and its full range of potentialities. The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and t…
Women's Writing between Two Algerian Wars
Women’s Writing between Two Algerian Wars Benjamin Stora (bio) Translated by R. H. Mitsch (bio) Friday, 10 April 1998: the Algerian television program “Right to Life” (“Le droit à la vie”) opens with the testimony of women who have been wounded and tortured. Horra, a mother of eight, recounts her terrible story. Abducted by three men, held captive for three weeks, she suffered the worst of physical, psychological, and sexual abuses. She says that…
Senghor in Context
W\iAT11thout resorting to emotional hagiography, the image of Leopold / Sdar Senghor that will be retained will be that of an intellectual and a politician of character and quality. Senghor forged for himself the personality of a man of determination and decision, and he saw himself as a man who was faithful to his ideas, to his friends, and to his own choices. The average Senegalese said of him, Lu Mu Matt Mu Dog, that is, He never yielded, once…
Creolist Mystification
Gestural Interpretation of the Occult in the Bin Kadi-So Adaptation of Macbeth
The Bin Kadi-So adaptation of Macbeth 1 explores different levels of reality that lead us to participate in an occult world, where everything occurs in a muted atmosphere and the essentials of action are woven together. In that mysterious universe that Tradition reveals to us by facilitating its communication with our plane of existence, we can study the actor's gestural performance when his or her eyes encounter the unseen, ears the unheard, and…
Theatricality and Social Mimodrama
Textbook definitions of theater are often based on "performance" and necessarily limit it to the play. It is therefore appropriate to reflect on the principle of "performance" as the objective and aim of drama. That same definition, however, does not pay sufficient attention to the implications of "scenography." Unconditional factors deal with the relationship that must be established between the actors, on one hand, and the audience, on the othe…
Bin Kadi-So and Dramatic Innovation
around 1938 within the framework of the Ecole William Ponty the? ater, a legacy of French colonization. Numerous talents, including Bernard B. Dadie, achieved fame on the theater stage with such plays as Assemien Dehyle roi du Sanwi and Kouao Adjoba. Designed essentially as enter? tainment, Ponty plays served as fertile soil for the cultural creations that were to be born in the 1960s. Sociopolitical conditions imposed a new orientation, both the…
Women's Writing between Two Algerian Wars
Women’s Writing between Two Algerian Wars Benjamin Stora (bio) Translated by R. H. Mitsch (bio) Friday, 10 April 1998: the Algerian television program “Right to Life” (“Le droit à la vie”) opens with the testimony of women who have been wounded and tortured. Horra, a mother of eight, recounts her terrible story. Abducted by three men, held captive for three weeks, she suffered the worst of physical, psychological, and sexual abuses. She says that…
The Myth of Ruben
After his anticolonial phase of the 1950s, Mongo Beti transformed himself into a crusader against neocolonialism on the threshold of the '70s. In the opinion of numerous critics, the writer traded his caustic temperament for a foul temper. More precisely, Main basse sur le Cameroun marks a fundamental turning point in Mongo Beti's literary career. Indeed, never since that pamphlet, has the writer abandoned that ideological bias, provocative gravi…
Creolist Mystification
Glissant's Africas
Africa's disillusionment with its independences has set the continent in a series of contradictions and problems that have left in their wake bloody tyrannies, interminable civil wars, cyclical famines, or unspeakable genocides that often threaten the very survival of entire com? munities. The postcolonial ravages experienced in Haiti and the other independent countries of the Antilles and Africa are turning the tomor? rows of decolonization into…
Mongo Beti and the ?Curse? of Ham
Research in African Literatures - Volume 33, Number 2, Summer 2002
Lilyan Kesteloot and the History of African Literature
Guy Ossito Midiohouan, R. H. Mitsch, Lilyan Kesteloot and the History of African Literature, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 33, No. 4, Special Issue: Léopold Sédar Senghor (Winter, 2002), pp. 180-198
Remember Mongo Beti (1932-2001)
station, Radio Alternance, to promote creativity and freedom of expres? sion. Furthermore, he had promised to donate to this project the honoraria he was to receive from Boston University, Harvard, Tufts, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology during his engagements there from 20 October through 4 November 2001. Since his retirement from public service in France in 1994, Mongo Beti had settled back in Cameroon and put all his energies into sev…
Birago Diop's Poetic Contribution to the Ideology of Negritude
In his only collection of poems, Leurres et lueurs, Senegalese author Birago Diop (1906-89) offers a dense and penetrating poetry on the states of consciousness of the poetic "I" and on African ontological conception, two thematic axes that reveal a paradox in the writer. Birago Diop's poetic activity was marked from its very beginnings primarily by an eloquence found in the French masters, such as Victor Hugo and Alfred de Musset. As a Romantic …
Senghor in Context
W\iAT11thout resorting to emotional hagiography, the image of Leopold / Sdar Senghor that will be retained will be that of an intellectual and a politician of character and quality. Senghor forged for himself the personality of a man of determination and decision, and he saw himself as a man who was faithful to his ideas, to his friends, and to his own choices. The average Senegalese said of him, Lu Mu Matt Mu Dog, that is, He never yielded, once…
Mongo Beti and the Responsibility of the African Intellectual
Someday, the history of the African intellectual must be written. The confusion created by this term in numerous debates on the continent is such that it will not be simple for those who would like to launch this project to easily untangle the web. Management leaders, executives, and university graduates of all kinds claim to be intellectuals, undoubtedly because of the prestige the word carries. As Michel Winock has shown in Le siècle des intell…
Life, Sovereignty, and Terror in the Fiction of Amos Tutuola
The remarks that follow bear upon the general question of life, sovereignty, and terror. To my mind, life does not exist in-and-of-itself. It does not reflect a generic property per se, but a mode of being-in-the-world, that is, a way of inhabiting the world; in short, a manner of confrontation and familiarity with the world and its full range of potentialities. The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and t…
The Aesthetics of Degradation in Haitian Literature
Between the end of the American Occupation in Haïti (1934) an the beginning of the Duvalier regime in the 1960s, Haitian literature is posited around three codes of positive reference: indigenism, magical realism, and Marxism. The obscurantism and totalitarianism of the Duvalier dictatorship (1957-86) with its spiral of underdevelopment and its destructive and destructuring tendencies, left a mark on both the environment and the imaginary. The sy…
Postcolonial Mythologies
The movements for cultural and political emancipation that led to the abolition of slavery as well as the independences grew out of a charismatic scenario, which in this essay means that the struggle for freedom was centered around a charismatic figure. Postcolonial mythologies are thus to be understood as an attempt to re-appropriate decolonization through the formulation of a new imaginary in the postcolony. The present study intends to analyze…
Muk nd
The mukàndà/leetrè, a form of heroic Luba-Kasayi poetry that is of relatively recent origin, testifies to the vitality, dynamism, and the adaptive capability of oral literature. Contrary to indications in its name and the name given its producer—leetrè/mukàndà (letter), mubadi/mwedi wa mukàndà (reader, promoter of mukàndà)—this literary form is declaimed rather than read, before a participating public, by a male performer, at events that have the…
Lettres maliennes
History (17 works) · Art (14 works) · African history and culture studies (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Literature (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · History (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works)