Sounds Senses

yasser elhariry, Associate Professor of French at Dartmouth College, is the author of Pacifist Invasions: Arabic, Translation & the Postfrancophone Lyric, and coeditor of The Postlingual Turn and Critically Mediterranean: Temporalities, Æsthetics & Deployments of a Sea in Crisis.

• PreludeGhérasim Luca’s FrancophonicsRaphaël SigalIntroductionUnsound frenchyasser elhariryPoetry1. Sound Capture and Transmedial Resonance: Moncef Ghachem’s LyricEdwige Tamalet Talbayev2. Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Secret MusicThomas C. Connolly3. Listening to 19th-Century Haitian PoetryMartin MunroCinema4. Hollowed Bodies: The Aural Skin of African CinemaVlad Dima5. Timbuktu, Sonic Map of Desert FuturesJill Jarvis6. Listening Back to the Sounds of Algiers in Pépé le Moko (1937), Omar Gatlato (1976), and Viva Laldjérie (2003)Maya BoutaghouVoices7. Sounds of PalestineOlivia C. Harrison8. Transcending Exoticism? Sound and Voice in Dai Sijie and François ChengShuangyi Li9. A Walk on the Wilde Side: Rock Music and Listening as Narrative Strategy in Marjane Satrapi’s PersepolisJennifer SolheimOutroThe “Tchip” Heard ‘Round the WorldEdwin HillNotes on Contributors

‘The book’s generous yet controlled tonal range with respect to the stated themes makes for welcome surprises such as these, as well as the necessary nods of acknowledgement from the reader concerning postcolonialisms. It succeeds in mapping critical terrain authentically and innovatively. Overall, its flow and transitions are smooth, not least as to comparative approaches.’Aaron Prevots, Southwestern University‘In a deeply attuned set of reflections, yasser elhariry provides a ringing Introduction to this impressive collection of texts exploring “sounds and senses” that possesses the potential to resonantly reconfigure ‘our sensorial and critical receptions and perceptions of francophone postcolonial cultures.’Alison Rice, University of Notre Dame