Ousmane Sembene: Dialogues with Critics and Writers

Book Overview

This volume celebrates the work of Ousmane Semb ne, the brilliant African filmmaker and writer. Since the 1950s, working in his native Senegal, Semb ne has produced a series of films and novels that incisively depict the realities of contemporary African experience, particularly that of urban and industrial Africa. The book begins with critical essays on Semb ne's oeuvre by Frederick Ivor Case, Fran oise Pfaff, Mbye Cham, and Claire Andrade-Warkins. There follows a series of presentations by distinguished black writers who discuss their craft and the ways in which language can function as a political act of cultural legitimation. These writers include Toni Cade Bambara, Earl Lovelace, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, John Edgar Wideman, and Semb ne.

The next section reproduces Semb ne's remarks on his film Camp de Thiaroye and an extended interview he recorded in Toronto in 1992. His comments are presented in both French and English. The volume concludes with annotated bibliographies of Semb ne's novels and of the films he has written and directed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870238892
• ISBN13: 9780870238895
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher