Ousmane Sembene's Hall of Men

(En)Gendering Everyday Heroism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9250148
AutoresLindo Lindo (autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume41
Fascículo4
Páginas109
Data de publicação2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoResearch in African Literatures (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044
EditoraIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/ral.2010.41.4.109
OpenAlexW2003642219
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas7

Faat Kiné (2000) and Moolaade (2004) have together generated remarkable critical attention with regard to the place of women in Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene's filmography. While numerous film critics and theorists see Sembene as a veritable torchbearer for African feminism, they have not sufficiently attended to the role men play in these final films. In order to contribute a more comprehensive feminist interpretation of these films, in this article I expose the complex web of power relations in which women's issues are embedded and show how the patriarchal grip risks thwarting plural expressions of both femininity and masculinity. I further demonstrate how female characters and their issues in Faat Kiné and Moolaade enable Sembene to unveil male characters that lay claim to novel paradigms of masculinities, no longer shackled to the colonial narrative of the past but rather anchored in the practice of their material experience of the everyday

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Femininity · Feminism · Film director · Gender relations · Literature · Manu · Masculinity · Movie theater · Narrative · Neocolonialism · Plural · Power (physics · Sociology · Transnationality · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · South African History and Culture