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Scholar of early African lit. I help academics globally to write publishable academic articles in 12 weeks. Yes, you can! #acwri #WYJA #12WeekArticle #GrayTest

Princeton, NJ
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    1. Wendy Laura Belcher‏ @WendyLBelcher 5 Oct 2019

      Wendy Laura Belcher Retweeted Wendy Laura Belcher

      The first offensive thing people say about early African literature is that it doesn’t exist, see my thread: https://twitter.com/WendyLBelcher/status/1176515878894092289?s=20 … The second offensive thing they say is that it is all derivative. #AfricanArchive 1/

      Wendy Laura Belcher added,

      Wendy Laura Belcher @WendyLBelcher
      I get a variety of *interesting* responses when someone asks me what I do and I say that I’m a professor of African literature. One American member of the public said to me, “You teach African literature? That must be a short course.” That’s a verbatim quote. #AfLit 1/17
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    2. Wendy Laura Belcher‏ @WendyLBelcher 5 Oct 2019

      The archives of Africa hold “nothing but translations” they say. In Mali is “nothing but” translations of texts originally in Arabic. In Ethiopia is “nothing but” translations of Greek or French etc. texts. Just such a dismissal happened today on Twitter. 2/

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    3. Wendy Laura Belcher‏ @WendyLBelcher 5 Oct 2019

      The terrific scholar @DerilloEyob posted images from a really important early African collection of texts, the Täˀammərä Maryam, stories written in Ethiopia about the miracles that Saint Mary has performed for the faithful. He was promptly corrected. 3/

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    4. Wendy Laura Belcher‏ @WendyLBelcher 5 Oct 2019

      He was told that the source of this *entire* collection was Greek, and moreover that the entire collection was written by one Greek author. This correction was made by someone with no knowledge of Ethiopian literature, based on misreading an entry in the British Library. 4/

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    5. Wendy Laura Belcher‏ @WendyLBelcher 5 Oct 2019

      When I told everyone involved to stop spreading this misinformation about Ethiopian literature, however inadvertently, they wouldn’t. They were just correcting an entry, they said. Why are you getting upset, they said? They couldn't care about the misinformation. 5/

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    6. Wendy Laura Belcher‏ @WendyLBelcher 5 Oct 2019

      Unfortunately, people feel free to assert things about African literature in ways they wouldn’t about other bodies of literature they know nothing about. And then not to care about the consequences of such. So, here I am to explain the facts about this Ethiopian collection. 6/

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    7. Wendy Laura Belcher‏ @WendyLBelcher 5 Oct 2019

      Stories about Mary first began in Jerusalem and then were told in Syria and other parts of the Levant. And then were told and written down in Europe. Pace this fact, people often say that these stories began in Europe, specifically in France. Typical Eurocentrism. 7/

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    8. Wendy Laura Belcher‏ @WendyLBelcher 5 Oct 2019

      Stories continued to circulate, and one European collection of these Levant and European stories was translated into Arabic in Egypt in the 1200s. Perhaps thirty to forty of those stories were translated into Ge’ez (Ethiopic) in Ethiopia in the late 1300s. 8/

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    9. Wendy Laura Belcher‏ @WendyLBelcher 5 Oct 2019

      In the centuries after, Ethiopians added hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of their own stories, with their own unique themes and inflections. It is a vast and vital body of African literature which most people know nothing about. 9/

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    10. Wendy Laura Belcher‏ @WendyLBelcher 5 Oct 2019

      If you are interested in knowing more, you can read about one such extraordinary story, the Cannibal of Qemer, which includes our translation of it. 10/ https://muse.jhu.edu/article/729804 

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      Wendy Laura Belcher‏ @WendyLBelcher 5 Oct 2019

      So, please stop saying that early African literature is derivative. It isn’t. And please stop acting like ignorance, and refusing to stop and do some research, is any defense for spreading misinformation. It isn't. #Africanarchive 11/11

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        2. Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin‏ @AdmiralHip 5 Oct 2019
          Replying to @WendyLBelcher

          You have not only misrepresented what I said heavily, when I was a citing what the BL said (and feel free to clarify their entry, because it says John Chrysostom on a certain folios and within that folio spread, the Miracles of Mary). I never said they were all greek texts.

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        3. Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin‏ @AdmiralHip 5 Oct 2019
          Replying to @AdmiralHip @WendyLBelcher

          The fact that you threatened me, and then lied about me, is unconscionable. Ma'am, I understand you feel very passionately about your field. But to attack me because I cited the BL entry which, if it is ambiguous and wrong okay, is really quite awful.

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        2. Garlax, The Weasel King‏ @TheWeaseKing 5 Oct 2019
          Replying to @WendyLBelcher

          Garlax, The Weasel King Retweeted Wendy Laura Belcher

          Is there a particular reason you felt the need to publish this thread without linking to any of the original thread? For the curious:https://mobile.twitter.com/WendyLBelcher/status/1180557248977932289 …

          Garlax, The Weasel King added,

          Wendy Laura Belcher @WendyLBelcher
          Replying to @AdmiralHip
          Please stop tweeting about this. I'm begging you. Because if you think this conversation is happening in some privacy, and that you aren't exposing yourself, you are wrong about that as well.
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        3. Vaccinated EMC‏ @EMC_Maine 5 Oct 2019
          Replying to @TheWeaseKing @WendyLBelcher

          Vaccinated EMC Retweeted Wendy Laura Belcher

          Also:https://twitter.com/WendyLBelcher/status/1180563777122684929?s=19 …

          Vaccinated EMC added,

          Wendy Laura Belcher @WendyLBelcher
          Replying to @ctrma81 @AdmiralHip
          No one can control their followers. Given that my last thread on this topic was seen 1.7 million times on Twitter, I was giving fair warning. I am an expert on this topic, if anyone had cared to look. But, no one cares when it comes to African literature.
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        1. Cranky Prognathodon‏ @SDrekkar 5 Oct 2019
          Replying to @WendyLBelcher

          I read the thread in question. You, apparently, did not; and have now gone off on a rant with no basis in what was actually said there.

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