Ousseynou Sy
Biographic Data
| ID | 9044433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ousseynou Sy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ousseynou |
| FAMILY NAME | Sy |
| SIGNATURE | SY O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université du Sahel |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Writing Fiction through the Camera Lens
This paper analyzes the intermedial discourse in Morrison’s novel Beloved. It brings to the fore the cinematic tropes with which Morrison’s “politics of affect”, to borrow from Massumi’s syntagm, is interwoven. Drawing on Müller’s concept of intermediality which shows the appropriations of art forms, this paper decodes Morrison’s intermedial poetics. To engage with the trauma of history and the “Archive Fever,” Morrison resorts to a visual medium…
Toni Morrison’s transgressive literary preaching and folk songs as postmemory
This paper intends to study the sermons or ‘‘literary preaching’’ and folk songs in Toni Morrison’s fiction in the light of Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory. Drawing on Hirsch’s postmemory then, this paper articulates that the ‘‘literary preaching’’ and folk songs function within Morrison’s novelistic discourse as postmemory medium that presses against the erasure and the death of a culture and history. The folk songs and ‘‘literary preach…
When ralph ellison unmutes the silences of history in invisible man
This paper deals with Ellison’s ahistoriographic or counterhistory/ countermemory discourse that narrates the marginality of the African-American community. To craft his ahistoriographic discourse, Ellison uses sequels of the past, and tropes of carcerality and segregation to bring to the fore the process and politics of otherization that have set the African-American community away from linear time and progress. Ellison’s counterhistory or count…
Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison’s Oraliture
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory is an open-access, peer-review, online publication for academic research, published twice a year by the Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania
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Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison’s Oraliture
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory is an open-access, peer-review, online publication for academic research, published twice a year by the Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania
When ralph ellison unmutes the silences of history in invisible man
This paper deals with Ellison’s ahistoriographic or counterhistory/ countermemory discourse that narrates the marginality of the African-American community. To craft his ahistoriographic discourse, Ellison uses sequels of the past, and tropes of carcerality and segregation to bring to the fore the process and politics of otherization that have set the African-American community away from linear time and progress. Ellison’s counterhistory or count…
Toni Morrison’s transgressive literary preaching and folk songs as postmemory
This paper intends to study the sermons or ‘‘literary preaching’’ and folk songs in Toni Morrison’s fiction in the light of Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory. Drawing on Hirsch’s postmemory then, this paper articulates that the ‘‘literary preaching’’ and folk songs function within Morrison’s novelistic discourse as postmemory medium that presses against the erasure and the death of a culture and history. The folk songs and ‘‘literary preach…
Writing Fiction through the Camera Lens
This paper analyzes the intermedial discourse in Morrison’s novel Beloved. It brings to the fore the cinematic tropes with which Morrison’s “politics of affect”, to borrow from Massumi’s syntagm, is interwoven. Drawing on Müller’s concept of intermediality which shows the appropriations of art forms, this paper decodes Morrison’s intermedial poetics. To engage with the trauma of history and the “Archive Fever,” Morrison resorts to a visual medium…
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Historiography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Poetics (2 works) · Poetry (2 works)