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Ousmane Sembene and the Politics of Culture (Paperback)
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Ousmane Sembene and the Politics of Culture (Paperback)
Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
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Undoubtedly one of Africa's most influential first generation of
writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene's creative works of fiction
as well as his films have been the subject of a considerable number
of scholarly articles. The schemas of reading applied to Sembene's
oeuvre (novels, short stories and films) have, in the main, focused
either on his militant posture against colonialism, his
disenchantment with African leadership, or his infatuation with
documenting the past in an attempt to present a balanced and
nuanced view of African history. While these studies,
unquestionably contribute to a better understanding of his works,
they collectively ignore Sembene's relentless preoccupation with
culture in his entire career as a writer and filmmaker. The
collection of essays in Sembene and the Politics of Culture sets
out to fill that gap as the contributors at once foreground
Sembene's fixation on the centrality of culture in the articulation
of the discourse of national consciousness and reevaluate his
intellectual and artistic legacy within an overarching framework of
African liberation. The contributors critically reassess the
ideological underpinnings of Sembene's thoughts, his role as one of
the foundational pillars of African cultural production, and his
relevance in current discourses of nationhood. They do so through a
wide variety of interdisciplinary approaches that draw on
linguistics, feminist theory, film theory, historiography, Marxist
criticism, psychoanalysis and a host of other approaches that give
novel insights in the critical analysis of the works under study.
In the part entitled "Testimonies," a collection of conversations
with people who worked closely with Sembene, each of the
interlocutors provide illuminating insights into the man's life and
work. The variety of themes and critical approaches in this
critical anthology will certainly be of interest not only to
students and scholars of African literature and cinema at various
levels of intellectual and cultural sophistication but also anyone
interested in the analysis of the nexus between power, culture, and
the discourse of liberation.
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