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Xala
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Author : James S. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-05-02
Xala written by James S. Williams and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-02 with Performing Arts categories.
Xala (1974) by the pioneering Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, was acclaimed on its release for its scorching critique of postcolonial African society, and it cemented Sembene's status as a wholly new kind of politically engaged, pan-African, auteur film-maker. Centring on the story of businessman El Hadji and the impotence that afflicts him on his marriage to a young third wife, Xala vividly captures the cultural and political upheaval of 1970s Senegal, while suggesting the radical potential of dissent, solidarity and collective action, embodied by El Hadji's student daughter Rama and the group of urban 'undesirables' who act as a kind of raw chorus to the affairs of the neocolonial elite. James S. Williams's lucid study traces Xala's difficult production history and analyses its daring combination of political and domestic drama, oral narrative, social realism, symbolism, satire, documentary, mysticism and Marxist analysis. Yet from its dazzling extended opening sequence of revolution as performance to its suspended climax of redemption through ritualised spitting, Xala presents a series of conceptual and formal challenges that resist a simple reading of the film as allegory. Highlighting often overlooked elements of Sembene's intricate, experimental film-making, including provocative shifts in mood and poetic, even subversively erotic, moments, Williams reveals Xala as a visionary work of both African cinema and Third Cinema that extended the parameters of postcolonial film practice and still resounds today with its searing inventive power.
Xala
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Author : Ousmane Sembène
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 1990
Xala written by Ousmane Sembène and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Fiction categories.
"Ousmane's satirical fable tells of the downfall of El Hadji, a member of the African elite who have taken the place of white businessmen in Francophone Africa. The protagonist is stricken with xala--impotence--in a racous bedrroom scene with his new young wife. The novel subtly traces the interplay among his three wives as El Hadji desperately tries to over come the affliction. In his obsession he resorts to primitive incantation, and his unscrupulous business associates cynically reject their former friend."--Cover
Xala
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Author : James S. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-05-02
Xala written by James S. Williams and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-02 with Performing Arts categories.
Xala (1974) by the pioneering Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, was acclaimed on its release for its scorching critique of postcolonial African society, and it cemented Sembene's status as a wholly new kind of politically engaged, pan-African, auteur film-maker. Centring on the story of businessman El Hadji and the impotence that afflicts him on his marriage to a young third wife, Xala vividly captures the cultural and political upheaval of 1970s Senegal, while suggesting the radical potential of dissent, solidarity and collective action, embodied by El Hadji's student daughter Rama and the group of urban 'undesirables' who act as a kind of raw chorus to the affairs of the neocolonial elite. James S. Williams's lucid study traces Xala's difficult production history and analyses its daring combination of political and domestic drama, oral narrative, social realism, symbolism, satire, documentary, mysticism and Marxist analysis. Yet from its dazzling extended opening sequence of revolution as performance to its suspended climax of redemption through ritualised spitting, Xala presents a series of conceptual and formal challenges that resist a simple reading of the film as allegory. Highlighting often overlooked elements of Sembene's intricate, experimental film-making, including provocative shifts in mood and poetic, even subversively erotic, moments, Williams reveals Xala as a visionary work of both African cinema and Third Cinema that extended the parameters of postcolonial film practice and still resounds today with its searing inventive power.
Xala
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Author : Ousmane Sembène
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 1990
Xala written by Ousmane Sembène and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Fiction categories.
"Ousmane's satirical fable tells of the downfall of El Hadji, a member of the African elite who have taken the place of white businessmen in Francophone Africa. The protagonist is stricken with xala--impotence--in a racous bedrroom scene with his new young wife. The novel subtly traces the interplay among his three wives as El Hadji desperately tries to over come the affliction. In his obsession he resorts to primitive incantation, and his unscrupulous business associates cynically reject their former friend."--Cover
Curse
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Author : Ousmane Sembène
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann International Incorporated
Release Date : 1976
Curse written by Ousmane Sembène and has been published by Heinemann International Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with African fiction (English) categories.
Looks at how the new African middle class have taken over from the colonialists as the exploiters of the people.
Xala African Writers Series
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Author : Sembene Ousmane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Xala African Writers Series written by Sembene Ousmane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
Xala
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Author : Ousmane Sembène
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 1997-08-01
Xala written by Ousmane Sembène and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-08-01 with Fiction categories.
A biting satire about the downfall of a businessman-polygamist who assumes the role of the colonialist in French-speaking Africa.
Learning From The Curse
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Author : Richard Fardon
language : en
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Release Date : 2017
Learning From The Curse written by Richard Fardon and has been published by Hurst & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Performing Arts categories.
'This book is about a story (Ousmane Sembene's Xala), about a time (the aftermath of Senegalese Independence), and about a place (Dakar, the capital of Senegal). It's also about the collaboration between an artist and an anthropologist, who have reacted in their different mediums to the story, time and place, and to what the other made of them ....' So opens a unique account in a genre of its own devising that will engage readers interested in Sembene Ousmane as writer and film director, in Senegal, in African film, in West Africa, or in books designed to be desirable objects in their own right.
Xala Africa On Africa
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language : en
Publisher:
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Semiotics Of An African Cinema
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Author : Augustine Ufua Enahoro
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Semiotics Of An African Cinema written by Augustine Ufua Enahoro and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Motion pictures categories.