Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- For John Conteh-Morgan -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part one Art, culture, and politics -- An Aesthetics of Necessity in the Age of Globalization:Village Ki-Yi as a New Social Movement -- Werewere Liking and Artistic Synthesis: A Postcolonial Practice? -- Un-Masking the Mediator: Werewere Liking's Flashes of Light -- La Parole du Mbombock : au-delà des problématiques féministe et francophone -- Part two Transgressive narratives: Werewere Liking's fictions -- Recycling the Past: Myth and History in Liking's Work -- La mémoire amputée, ou comment raconter les silences de l'Afrique -- L'amour-cent-vies: dans la mouvance du voyage et des entrelacs -- Part three Spectacle and Myth: Werewere Liking's Drama -- Werewere Liking, Liquid Heroes (Héros d'eau) -- Liquid Heroes: A Commentary -- The Rehearsal Is the Play: Dramatic Self- Reflexivity and This Africa of Ours… -- Werewere Liking, This Africa of Ours… (Quelque Chose-Afrique) (excerpts) -- Part four The starting point: Werewere Liking's Poetry -- Au commencement était le ver(s) -- La poésie transgénérique de Werewere Liking -- Part five Translating Werewere Liking: A Synesthetic Experience -- Translating Werewere Liking: Speaking Pictures, Seeing Words -- Translating Echoes: A Joyride into Werewere Liking's Ritual Drama -- Translating Texts That Play: Elle sera de jaspe et de corail and its translation into English -- Part six Reading Werewere Liking -- La "misovire" et la critique: La réception des oeuvresde Werewere Liking -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.