African semiotics in the United States

Simon X. Battestini

3-5

Art systems and semiotics

the question of art, craft, and colonial taxonomies in Africa

Suzanne Preston Blier

7-18

Constructing and narrativizing the black zone

semiotic strategies of black aesthetic discourse

Elliott Butler-Evans

19-35

Expression and aesthetics in science and art

ethnography as discursive sabotage

Bennetta Jules-Rosette

37-55

I as an other

Sartre and Lévi-Strauss or an (im)-possible dialogue on the cogito

Valentin Y. Mudimbe

57-68

Free indirect discourses in soleils des indépendances

George Joseph

69-84

Three African (oral) narrative versions

text, tradition, and performance

Robert Cancel

85-107

A critical analysis of African writing systems

Yao Kouadio, Simon X. Battestini

109-115

Deconstruction and decolonization of the self

Simon X. Battestini

117-131