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| Title: | Ousmane Sembčne and the politics of culture |
| Editors: | Vetinde, Lifongo J. Fofana, Amadou Tidiane  |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Pages: | 179 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | After the empire, The francophone world and postcolonial France |
| City of publisher: | Lanham, MD |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| ISBN: | 073919254X; 9780739192542; 0739192558; 9780739192559 |
| Geographic term: | Senegal |
| Subjects: | writers filmmakers prose films culture literary criticism |
| About person: | Sembčne Ousmane (1923-2007) |
| Abstract: | Introduction: Cultural politics in Senegal: a quest for relevance, by Lifongo Vetinde. I. Culture and development: Culture, development, and the African Renaissance: Osumane Sembčne and Léopold Senghor at the World Festival of Negro Arts (Dakar 1966), by David Murphy; Ousmane Sembčne and the aesthetics of négritude, by Lifongo Vetinde --Islam and the question of identity in Ousmane Sembčne's film 'Ceddo', by Cherif Correa. II. Discourses: A twice-told tale: the postcolonial allegory of 'La noire de'... and 'Faat kiné', by Dayna Oscherwitz;Bringing the rain indoors: rereading the national allegory in Ousmane Sembčne's 'Xala', by Mathew H. Brown; Women in Sembčne's films: spatial reconfigurations and cultural meanings, by Moussa Sow; Why does Diouana die? Facing history, migration and trauma in 'Black girl', by Lyell Davis. III. Language and aesthetics: Language, racial difference, and dialogic consciousness: Sembene's 'God's bits of wood', by Augustine Uka Nwanyanwu; An onomastic reading of Ousmane Sembčne's 'Faat kiné', by Mouhamédoul A. Niang; Trans-formal aesthetics and cultural impact on Ousmane Sembčne's explication of 'Xala', by Rachel Diang'a. Appendix: Testimonies on Ousmane Sembčne: Makhčte Diallo, Pathé Diagne, Fatoumata Kandé Senghor. [Book abstract] |
