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Title:Women and posters as heterotopias in Ousmane Sembene's 'Xala'
Author:Dima, Vlad
Year:2013
Periodical:Journal of African Cinemas (ISSN 1754-923X)
Volume:5
Issue:2
Pages:137-148
Language:English
Geographic term:Senegal
Subjects:films
filmmakers
postcolonialism
women
About person:Sembčne Ousmane (1923-2007)ISNI
External link:https://doi.org/10.1386/jac.5.2.137_1
Abstract:This article analyses the connections between the female characters of Ousmane Sembene's 'Xala' (1974, Senegal) and the diegetic posters seen on the walls in the film, which yields a new conversation on Michel Foucault's heterotopias as utopias or non-spaces. As a result, women, posters and heterotopias define the spatial evolution of the main characters (including the male) as well as that of the film itself. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract]