Ousmane Sembene: writer, filmmaker, and revolutionary artist

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Title:	Ousmane Sembene: writer, filmmaker, and revolutionary artist
Editors:	Cole, Ernest Diop, Oumar Chérif
Year:	2016
Pages:	460
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Trenton
Publisher:	Africa World Press
ISBN:	1569024642; 9781569024645
Geographic term:	Senegal
Subjects:	filmmakers writers films novels short stories literary criticism festschrifts (form)
About person:	Sembène Ousmane (1923-2007)
Abstract:	This collective volume explores the views and works of Ousmane Sembène, filmmaker, writer and artist from Senegal. Included are a number of interviews with Sembène, analyses of his films, analyses of his novels, and a number of tributes. Contents: Introduction by Ernest Cole and Oumar Cherif Diop. Section A: Interviews, by G.M. Peary and Patrick McGilligan, Harold Weaver, Sada Niang and Samba Gadjigo, Mamadou Niang, Kwate Nee Owoo, Jared Rapfogel and Richard Porton, and Samba Gadjigo. Section B: Filmography, by Oliver Barlet and Thibaud Faguer-Redig, Sameena Black, Thibaud Faguer-Redig, David Uru Iyam, Amadou T. Fofana, Gilberto Perez, Rachel Langford, Marcia Landy, Jude G. Akudinobi, Awam Amkpa and Gunja SenGupta, and Sheila Petty. Section C: The novel and short story, by Craig V. Smith, Eli Park Sorensen, Josef Gugler and Oumar Cherif Diop, Marian Aguiar, Aaron Mushengyezi, Vartan Messier, Karen Sacks, Kenneth Harrow, Thomas J. Lynn, Sam Raditlhalo, and Laura Mulvey. Section D: Tributes, by A.B. Assensoh and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh, Samba Gadjigo, and Julia Watson. [ASC Leiden abstract]