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1. The Gates of Paradise

   The Gates of Paradise

   Ana Castello - 16.10.2018 - 16:41

2. Interview David Daniels

   Interview David Daniels

   Ana Castello - 16.10.2018 - 16:46

3. Beyond Oral/Digital: Ghanaian Electronic Literature as a Paradigm for African Digital Textuality

   This dissertation speaks to a massive dearth of research in African electronic literature (African e-lit), a discipline that boasts a growing number of works but little scholarship. With African literature incorporating digital technology into its creative process, and with electronic literary criticism focusing on areas outside its predominantly western cannon, African e-lit positions itself as an important area of scholarly endeavor. After considering the implications of placing African e-lit as the direction in which both African literature and electronic literature take, this dissertation looks at three different genres of African e-lit in the context of oral literature. There are analyses of examples of concrete poetry, conceptual poetry, and mobile video games, all from Ghana. Ultimately, the aim of this project is to ascertain the ways in which oral tradition influences the nature, form, and shape of African electronic literature.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.10.2018 - 23:20

4. hatchet

   hatchet    (video - 29 seconds, in color with sound)

   hatchet is a fright of fancy - a concrete poem part rage, part fear. Decapitated segments are propelled in phonetic sequences suggesting threat, violence (domestic violence, stalking, rape) and escape. Words moving, pulled, hacked, torn and swallowed in a scream and blood red tear-drop; fighting flies; a “hatchet” refrain in whispers chugging like a train or train of thought locked in madness or fear. Audio recordings of trains squealing, a girl’s metallic screams and a cloying backdrop of “Tonight You Belong to Me” sung by Patience & Prudence are used, in part, to depict the tumbling psychological confusion often resonant in these crimes (e.g., she was asking for it; I made him mad; etc.). 

    

   Hilda Daniel - 13.09.2019 - 10:21

5. Er/Sie: ein literarisches Internet-Projekt

   The digital project by Ursula Menzer and Sabine Orth is based on the book Er/Sie Vexus I-VII by Sabine Orth. They address “er” and “sie”, which is the German personal pronouns.

   Heidi Haugsdal Kvinge - 22.09.2021 - 13:16

6. Looking Back while Moving Forward: The Case of Concrete Poetry and Sankofa

   This article considers the intersection between African oral tradition and electronic literature by exploring the potential of Sankofa to interact with concrete poetry in an electronic space. Sankofa is an example of the Adinkra, a set of symbols that were originally created and used by the Akan in West Africa. These symbols have literary value which this article looks at in ways similar to concrete poetry; examining Sankofa as concrete poetry in an electronic context enables a simultaneous dovetailing with as well as convergence from oral and print based modes of engaging with the text: aspects of oral tradition influence this exploration. 

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.06.2022 - 18:53

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