Autore	Lamoureaux Siri
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (198 p.)
Soggetto topico	Cell phones - Social aspects - Sudan - Khartoum College students - Social networks - Sudan - Khartoum Nubians - Sudan - Khartoum - Social life and customs
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-41275-6 9786613412751 9956-726-32-X 9956-726-19-2 9956-726-45-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Pictures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Mobile phones and network society; Situating the study: Initial research question; New media - new communities; Working with youth cultures: Community, identity and autonomy; Re-directing my research; Interdisciplinarity: Organizing my ideas; 2. Memories of Mekwar: Historical identities and student diversity; Pre-colonial history; Center vs. periphery; Ethno-linguistic peripheries and national identity; Processes of migration: The making of the urban capital The National Islamic Fromnt (NIF) and the new Islamic state What does it mean to be Sudanese?; 3. Discourse and identity: Texting in the Sudanese communicative ecology; ""Keeping in touch"": Sudanese communicative style; Texting as a semi-oral medium; Discursive identities; Classical Arabic and Sudanese Colloquial Arabic in texting; Space for alternative identities; 4. Nuba and urban identity: The discourse of resistance and the practice of integration; Joseph's story; The ""Nuba problem"": Discourses of othering; On becoming ""Arab""; Research question revisited Lessons in methodology: The Karko students The Krongo picnic; Paths of accumulation: Contradiction of ideology and practice; Flexible identites: Krongawi - Nubaawi - Sudaani; 5. Text message poetry (shi'ar iliktrooni): The broader effects of personal practices; Alessandro's story; The sending and receiving of poetic messages; Poetry in the Sudanese context; The 'social circulation' of SMS poetry and the 'mediation of 'missing'; Intertextual texting; Recontextualization and the public imagination; 6. Love in the time of mobility: Careful appropriations and courtship negotiations; Leila's story Public vs private in Sudan Women's space in the Hamad family's home; Islamic fundamentalist discourse on women; Courtship and social space: Maneuvering on the margins; The mobile phone and the semi-private social space for love; Romantic curiosities and moral crises; The space in-between: Being a ""good Muslim"" and a desiring individual; Leila sets an example; 7. Being ""modern"": From Shakespeare to chat room literacy; Fellah's story; The mobile phone is a technology and a symbol of modernity; English is a technology and a symbol of modernity; The Gulf is modern place; Coming from the Gulf Globalization of English and computer-mediated communication (CMC)Howglobal and local mingle in Sudanese - English texting; Belonging in a globalized world; 8. Conclusion; Appendix 1: Transcription conventions; Appendix 2: List of terms; References; Back cover
Altri titoli varianti	Risālah fī jawāl Risaala fi jawaal
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457914403321

Autore	Lamoureaux Siri
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (198 p.)
Soggetto topico	Cell phones - Social aspects - Sudan - Khartoum College students - Social networks - Sudan - Khartoum Nubians - Sudan - Khartoum - Social life and customs
ISBN	1-283-41275-6 9786613412751 9956-726-32-X 9956-726-19-2 9956-726-45-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Pictures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Mobile phones and network society; Situating the study: Initial research question; New media - new communities; Working with youth cultures: Community, identity and autonomy; Re-directing my research; Interdisciplinarity: Organizing my ideas; 2. Memories of Mekwar: Historical identities and student diversity; Pre-colonial history; Center vs. periphery; Ethno-linguistic peripheries and national identity; Processes of migration: The making of the urban capital The National Islamic Fromnt (NIF) and the new Islamic state What does it mean to be Sudanese?; 3. Discourse and identity: Texting in the Sudanese communicative ecology; ""Keeping in touch"": Sudanese communicative style; Texting as a semi-oral medium; Discursive identities; Classical Arabic and Sudanese Colloquial Arabic in texting; Space for alternative identities; 4. Nuba and urban identity: The discourse of resistance and the practice of integration; Joseph's story; The ""Nuba problem"": Discourses of othering; On becoming ""Arab""; Research question revisited Lessons in methodology: The Karko students The Krongo picnic; Paths of accumulation: Contradiction of ideology and practice; Flexible identites: Krongawi - Nubaawi - Sudaani; 5. Text message poetry (shi'ar iliktrooni): The broader effects of personal practices; Alessandro's story; The sending and receiving of poetic messages; Poetry in the Sudanese context; The 'social circulation' of SMS poetry and the 'mediation of 'missing'; Intertextual texting; Recontextualization and the public imagination; 6. Love in the time of mobility: Careful appropriations and courtship negotiations; Leila's story Public vs private in Sudan Women's space in the Hamad family's home; Islamic fundamentalist discourse on women; Courtship and social space: Maneuvering on the margins; The mobile phone and the semi-private social space for love; Romantic curiosities and moral crises; The space in-between: Being a ""good Muslim"" and a desiring individual; Leila sets an example; 7. Being ""modern"": From Shakespeare to chat room literacy; Fellah's story; The mobile phone is a technology and a symbol of modernity; English is a technology and a symbol of modernity; The Gulf is modern place; Coming from the Gulf Globalization of English and computer-mediated communication (CMC)Howglobal and local mingle in Sudanese - English texting; Belonging in a globalized world; 8. Conclusion; Appendix 1: Transcription conventions; Appendix 2: List of terms; References; Back cover
Altri titoli varianti	Risālah fī jawāl Risaala fi jawaal
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910821090303321

Autore	Mentan Tatah
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Langaa
ISBN	9956-728-47-0 9956-728-23-3 9956-728-35-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910463596103321

Autore	Alobwede D'Epie Charles
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa, 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (194 p.)
Disciplina	820
Soggetto topico	Cameroonian fiction (English) Cameroonian literature (English)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-19820-7 9956-716-21-9 9786613198204 9956-716-33-2 9956-615-40-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Chapter Eighteen; Chapter Nineteen; Chapter Twenty; Chapter Twenty One; Chapter Twenty Two; Chapter Twenty Three; Chapter Twenty Four; Chapter Twenty Five; Chapter Twenty Six; Chapter Twenty Seven; Chapter Twenty Eight; Chapter Twenty Nine; Chapter Thirty; Chapter Thirty One Chapter Thirty Two Chapter Thirty Three; Chapter Thirty Four; Back cover
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910458240803321

Autore	Nyamnjoh Francis B. <1961->
Edizione	[2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bamenda, North West Province, Cameroon, : Langaa, 2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (76 p.)
Disciplina	822.92
Soggetto topico	Fundamentalism - Africa, West
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-19833-9 9786613198334 9956-716-46-4 9956-716-58-8 9956-615-56-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Author's Biographical Note; Contents; Introduction; Characters; ACT ONE SCENE I; ACT ONE SCENE II; ACT ONE SCENE III; ACT ONE SCENE IV; ACT TWO SCENE I; ACT TWO SCENE II; ACT TWO SCENE III; ACT TWO SCENE IV; ACT TWO SCENE V; Back Cover
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910458575003321