Piquette Kathryn E. & Whitehouse Ruth D. — Writing as Material Practice. Substance, Surface and Medium ; Kay Sarah. — Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries

Herein two books are going to be briefly discussed. Although they have very little in common and are (geographically) peripheral to the topic of the present volume, they both offer models for analysis of the materiality of African texts that were deemed worthwhile to include. Both works are admirabl...

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Published in:Cahiers d’études africaines 2019
Main Author: Tsakos, Alexandros
Format: Review
Language:English
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Summary:Herein two books are going to be briefly discussed. Although they have very little in common and are (geographically) peripheral to the topic of the present volume, they both offer models for analysis of the materiality of African texts that were deemed worthwhile to include. Both works are admirable efforts innovatively tackling the issue of the materiality of written texts and can be applied to African material, as I exemplify with a Christian manuscript ...
ISSN:0008-0055
1777-5353
DOI:10.4000/etudesafricaines.28254