http://www.syndicatemizzou.org Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:14:45 GMT en-us 40 Center for eResearch Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/images/logo.png 384 80 http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/ugarte/ipod/clip3SpainsrelationAfrica.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/ugarte/ipod/clip3SpainsrelationAfrica.m4v Ugarte's current project: Looking at the relationship between Spain and Africa from the late 19th century through the 21st century. 3 Fri, 12 May 2006 17:01:22 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/gallimore/ipod/gallimore02.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/gallimore/ipod/gallimore02.m4v Rangira Béa Gallimore’s second book, _L’oeuvre romanesque de Calixthe Beyala: Le renouveau de l’écriture féminine en Afrique francophone sub-saharienne_ (1997), focuses on contemporary Francophone writer Calixthe Beyala. Whereas her first book subverts “the master’s language” by using the French of the slums (_les bidonvilles_) instead of classic French, her second book attempts to subvert patriarchy itself. Providing counterpart to male writers “who idealized the African woman as this beautiful symbol of the earth,” Beyala offers main characters who are forced into prostitution because of sexual abuse or poverty. “It’s very clear in her writing that she’s using the female body discourse. The body in writing is exposed, it is displayed,” explains Gallimore, and indeed Beyala’s tendency to address taboo subjects has created controversy. “It was very shocking for an African woman to write such things,” yet women’s bodies in Beyala’s novels stand as a “symbol of the violated earth, of the bad and the evil” that they have had to endure through their bodies. “You cannot deny the reality of Africa,” responds Beyala to her detractors. 3 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:53:42 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/gallimore/ipod/Gallimore05redone.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/gallimore/ipod/Gallimore05redone.m4v Gallimore speaks of the obstacles to overcome when trying to speak the unspeakable, to comprehend the incomprehensible, that is genocide. Her next book involves literary criticism as well as sociolinguistic and anthropological methods, drawing upon data collected in Rwanda as well as archival data and transcripts of the testimonies of women who survived the genocide. She has been working with an organization in Rwanda called ABASA, a group made of rape survivors. (_Abasa_ is a Kinyrwanda word that means “we are all the same.”) Interviewing women from this group, Gallimore hopes to give voice to their stories and identify their various needs so that Step Up can try to address them. 3 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:55:11 GMT