Mobilités et migrations dans les discours et la littérature orale moose (Burkina Faso)

Degorce, Alice

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“…Thus a patient reconstruction and understanding of artistic performances in various contexts has been developed by listening to, for example, the rap of Y'en a marre 'Fed up' in both Senegal and France (Moulard-Kouka, 2014), the songs of young girls between Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast (Degorce, 2014), by reading the poetry of returners (i.e., returning migrants) to Western Sahara (Boulay 2014), by observing the musical practices of the griots between Senegal and Italy (Pizzolato, 2014) and theater in Mali (notably Habib Dembélé's stand-up "Le Visa Kanute" (Sow, 2014), by observing the surge in women's batuku in Cape Verde (Canut & Furtado, 2014) or by reading novels in poulâr (Bourlet, 2014) and so on.…”

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1. Can “migrants” speak? Voices, narratives and performances

Canut¹

2021

Transnational Narratives of Migration and Exile

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This chapter analyzes the multiple voices of exiles, asylum seekers, adventurers, travelers, or migrants. To understand migration processes, it is necessary to understand that language practices are social practices that create and throw into play interactional and socio-political contexts. In opposition to a media, state and police conception of the speech (parole) of exiles, a plethora of academic and artistic productions related to migration issues have shaped a new approach to mobility and language practices in Europe. By freeing the speech of exiles themselves, through life narratives in particular, these works offer a different perspective on women and men whose discourse and language registers have been obscured or erased. By shifting gazes, I suggest instead starting out from countries affected by mobility in order to observe language practices as social practices, where they emerge locally through cinema, radio, songs, rap, performances, novels, etc. Keywords migration | voices | narratives | performances | speech | semiotic | language practices 1. Can "migrants" speak? Voices, narratives and performances 1 As parole has no single English equivalent, the words 'speech' , 'voice' and 'words' have alternatively been used (we are referring here to the usual use of parole and not to the Saussure dichotomy langue/parole). 2 Here are some examples in France: Eldorado by Laurent Gaudé (J'ai Lu, 2009), Ulysses from Bagdad by Eric-Emmanuel Schmit (Albin Michel, 2008); Dans la peau d'un migrant by Arthur Frayer-Laleix (Fayard, 2015); Tous migrants ! (Gallimard, 2017); Brûle la mer by Berchache and Nathalie Nambot (2014); Les messagers by Crouzillat Hélène and Tura Laetitia (2014); La traversée by Mathieu Pernot (Le point du jour, 2014); the exhibition I AM WITH THEM: manifeste photographique pour les réfugiés, by Anne A-R., (Gründ, 2016); Weiwei's gesture imitating the dead child Aylan Kurdi. For information on the compassionate rhetoric of images, see Susan Sontag Devant la douleur des autres (Christian Bourgeois, 2003), in particular the analysis of Sebastião Salgado's exhibition Migrations : Humanity in Transition. Concerning the power of images, see Maaza Mengiste How not to photograph the Rohingya genocide in the making. 3The use of the terms "migrants" or "exiles" is not satisfactory, especially since those who they refer to use other terms ("aventuriers" 'adventurers' and "voyageurs" 'travelers' in French, but also many other terms stemming from local linguistic practices, see Canut & Ramos (2014) for West-Africa, for example). Therefore, we will be using several terms throughout this text in order not to settle on one or the other (see Canut, 2020).1. Can "migrants" speak? Voices, narratives and performances 1. Can "migrants" speak? Voices, narratives and performances

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“…It is actually quite compelling that the discourse of migrants chosen for these types of productions are always well in tune with the moralist discourse of Europeans. 24 For more on this topic, seeBourlet (2014);Degorce (2014);Lafay & Mick (2014);Mazauric (2014);Moulard-Kouka (2014);Prothmann (2015);Seck & Ly (2015);Sow (2014).…”

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1. Can “migrants” speak? Voices, narratives and performances

Canut¹

2021

Transnational Narratives of Migration and Exile

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Songs that made men leave: migration, imagination, and media in late twentieth‐century Mali

Mbodj‐Pouye

2024

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Throughout the twentieth century, in the Soninke‐speaking area of West Africa, women sang to praise migrants and mock immobile men, before such songs were abandoned at the beginning of the twenty‐first century. These songs have commonly been read as reinforcing a normative order of migration whereby migration functioned as proof of manhood. The study of an original corpus, collected by a radio station since the 1980s, makes it possible to reconsider these songs as imaginative devices allowing women to take various stances on male migration, through their performance as much as in the metadiscourse on migration conveyed by stories about these songs. Calling for a finer attention to texts in the burgeoning scholarship on migration and imagination, the study of the ‘non‐migrant song’, and of its abrupt end, inscribes the imaginative processes about migration and gender roles in a long history that pre‐dates the tightening of borders and the global circulation of images. It highlights the analytical potential of studying textual engagements with technology to enrich the understanding of imagination processes in migration contexts.

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Introduction. Langage et migration : état des lieux

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Guellouz²

2018

Langage Et Société

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Mobilités et migrations dans les discours et la littérature orale moose (Burkina Faso)

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1. Can “migrants” speak? Voices, narratives and performances

1. Can “migrants” speak? Voices, narratives and performances

Songs that made men leave: migration, imagination, and media in late twentieth‐century Mali

Introduction. Langage et migration : état des lieux

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