Djibril Diop Mambéty, Sony Labou Tansi, and the Recourse to the Imaginary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12879106 |
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| Authors | Michaela Hulstyn (0000-0002-7069-8032, Reed College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 180-187 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-9292 • E-ISSN: 1740-9306 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17409292.2019.1646017 |
| OpenAlex | W2993624192 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This paper examines the relationship between the imaginary and political engagement in two experimental Francophone African works: Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki and Sony Labou Tansi’s La Vie et demie. Rather than explicating the political motives for writing and filming imaginatively, this paper analyzes the effect that experimental postcolonial fictions have on their viewers and readers. It argues that the concept of as-if imagining offers new synthetic ground between aesthetic and political projects that are often perceived to be in tension with one another
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · French · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · African history and culture studies · African Studies and Ethnography · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Law · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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