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Publication Digital African Literatures and the Coloniality of Data(Cambridge University Press, 2022-10-11) Yékú, JamesDigital iterations of African literary texts present scholarly opportunities to interrogate how literature produced and circulated on digital media becomes entangled with the capitalist politics of datafication. In the data paradigm described in the article, literary representations are subject to the workings of neoliberal capital and the constraints of algorithmic systems. Through a postcolonial approach that puts the digital humanities in conversation with African literary studies, the article transcends how digital technologies have evidently changed African literature and tackles the costs of digital literary cultures and networks from Africa. I examine data relations through an African literary culture, which, in the current moment, indisputably exhibits the attainment of new and complex elements including the integration of digital affordances in the production and critical reception of texts. How African literary expressions in a digital age circulate in market-driven digital platforms like Facebook and YouTube makes the subjects of data capitalism or the coloniality of data as important for African literature as the expanded literary networks enabled by the digital.Publication Supplementary Material for "Muslim Women Scholars"(2022-04-26) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Mutable Form and Materiality: Toward a Critical History of New Tapestry Networks(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2016-02-04) Gerschultz, JessicaThis article raises two concerns underpinning the need for a critical history of fiber art in the 20th century. The first is a critique of aesthetic formalism predominant in the Lausanne Biennale during the 1960s and 70s, which overlooks artistic, ideological, and political milieus that drew together textile artists from localities formerly treated as peripheral in art history. The second holds to account Euro-American institutions and related historiographies for their curatorial exclusion of Arab and African fiber artists. Such inclusion, I argue, would have conjured tapestry's deeper incongruities, which emanated from unresolved questions at the core of modernism: the assigning and appropriating of artistic identities, the evaded issue of state patronage, and the persistent ideological and aesthetic problem of craft and its framing within economies. By comparing three artists: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Jagoda Buic, and Safia Farhat, I reassess New Tapestry networks, myths, and systems of state and institutional support. The circulation of Abakanowicz, Buic, and Farhat around a conflux of dimensions signals a new pathway for recovering and writing a history of fiber art, and perhaps a reflection on modernism at large.Publication Hausa Games and Spoken Word(1979) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Hausa Poetry(1979) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Hausa Musical Performances(1979) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Interviews with Hausa women(1979) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Migration Stories: Why Should People Study Islam?(Kansas African Studies Center, University of Kansas, 2016) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Migration Stories: Why it is Helpful to Learn Newcomer's Stories?(Kansas African Studies Center, University of Kansas, 2016) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Migration Stories: How Do Newcomers Impact Communities?(Kansas African Studies Center, University of Kansas, 2016) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Migration Stories: Cultural Sensitivities(Kansas African Studies Center, University of Kansas, 2016) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Migration Stories: Is There a Standard Islam?(Kansas African Studies Center, University of Kansas, 2016) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Migration Stories: What are Islamists?(Kansas African Studies Center, University of Kansas, 2016) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Migration Stories: Abrahamic Religions(Kansas African Studies Center, University of Kansas, 2016) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Migration Stories: What Are the Different Branches and Schools of Islam?(Kansas African Studies Center, University of Kansas, 2016) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Migration Stories: What About Sharia Law?(Kansas African Studies Center, University of Kansas, 2016) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Migration Stories: How Can Non-Muslims Learn About Islam?(Kansas African Studies Center, University of Kansas, 2016) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Migration Stories: Introduction and What Is Important to Know About Islam?(Kansas African Studies Center, University of Kansas, 2016) Mack, Beverly B.Publication Plays, Possession, and Rock-and-Roll: Political Theatre in Africa(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1992-12-01) Ukpokodu, PeterNo abstract is available for this item.Publication Revisiting Arabic diglossic switching in light of the MLF and its sub-models: The 4-M Model and the Abstract Level Model(Cambridge University Press, 2013-05-12) Boussofara-Omar, NaimaThe goal of this paper is twofold. First, I wish to discuss two sets of problematic cases that arose when I applied Myers-Scotton's (1993) Matrix Language Frame model of codeswitching to Arabic diglossic switching (Boussofara-Omar, 1999). The first set involves the co-occurrence of system morphemes from both varieties of Arabic within a single CP. The second set concerns CPs in which the word order is that of the dialect but the system morphemes are from Standard Arabic, and CPs in which clashes occur between the subcategorization restrictions of the two varieties of Arabic participating in diglossic switching. The Matrix Language Frame model neither predicts nor offers explanations for either case. Second, in an effort to provide an explanation to their occurrence, I revisit the same problematic sets in light of Myers-Scotton's sub-models: the 4-M model and the Abstract Level model (Myers-Scotton and Jake, 2000, 2001), the latest refined version of the MLF model.