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Title:The Role of Women in the Works of Sembene Ousmane
Author:Moore, Carrie D.
Year:1972
Periodical:Pan-African Journal
Volume:5
Issue:2
Period:Spring
Pages:263-276
Language:English
Geographic term:French-speaking Africa
Subjects:literature
women
Literature, Mass Media and the Press
Women's Issues
Abstract:The movement from a traditional pre-colonial society to a society steeped in colonialism and finally to an independent society gives rise to a new African woman who is no longer confined to a compound and rice field but who has ideas and is not afraid to express them verbally. Contrary to many of the French African writers who precede him, Sembene Ousmane has chosen to defend and present an over-worked African woman in the process of liberating herself. Throughout his works appears a sympathetic approach to the status of women in Africa. The women in the African society he describes are either 1) objects to be used as the possessor sees fit or 2) viable forces for change in a rapidly developing society. After a short review of the role of women in the French-African literature produced between 1934 and 1948, in the 1950s, and in the 1960s, follows discussion of Ousmane's works: Le Docker (no. 956), 0! Pays, Mon Beau Peuple (1957), God's Bits of Wood (1961), Voltaique (1962), Her Three Days, Souleymane, l'Harmattan (1964). White Genesis (1965). Ref.
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