Preface / Mamadou Diouf -- Introduction: Aura and Icon in Contemporary Senegal -- Mystical Reproductions: Photography and the Authentic Simulacrum -- Portraits of the Hidden Side: Sanctifying Domestic Space -- Stations in a Life: Glass Paintings as Visual Hagiography -- Apostles of Hard Work: Sheikh Ibra Fall and the Baye Fall Movement -- "Walls That Speak": Public Art and Postcolonial Memory -- Mouride Women: In the Mirror of the Mother -- Healing Words: Mouride Arts of Writing and Inscription -- Contemporary Art and a "Mouride Way of Reasoning" -- An Architecture of the Word -- Pilgrimage and Exile, Transcendence and Prosperity.
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