General seminar arrangements in 2025
- WISER's TRUST seminar is hosted on-line every Wednesday afternoon at 16:00 - 17:00 SA during the teaching semester | For information about WISER's PLANT LIVES seminar, please follow this link.
- Please register on Zoom in advance of the meeting on this link.
- Participants must should please read the paper below prior to the seminar, which is typically available by the Friday preceding the seminar.
Literacy and Power in Madagascar
Monday, 12 August, 2013 - 15:00
Presented by:
Pier
Larson
Co-hosted with CISA
In this article, I seek to deepen the chronology and broaden the scope of literary histories of Indian Ocean Africa by examining the evolving and at times unstable literary mosaic of highland Madagascar between 1820 and 1860. Because those who employed elements of the literate bundle were impelled into positions of social influence or marginalized from it, understanding Madagascar’s literary mosaic with its many distant and insular interconnections is especially useful for thinking about contests over power there, especially in and around the court at Antananarivo, and hypothesizing how literacy may enter into sociopolitical struggles and literary landscapes elsewhere in Africa.
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