African Images: Recent Studies and Text in Cinema

by Eke, Maureen N.; Harrow, Kenneth W.; Yewah, Emmanuel

• ISBN13: 9780865438200
• ISBN10: 086543820X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Africa World Pr

Summary

This volume collects together a selection of the,key papers presented at the twenty-third,conference of the African Literature Association,which took as its theme the subject of African,cinema. Contributors to the conference included,Salem Mekuria, Ngozi Onwurah, Tsitsi Dangarembga,Bassek ba Kobhio, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Francois,Woukoache, Djibril Diop Mambety, Assia Djebar,Gaston Kabore, Ola Balogun, and John Akomgrah.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction
Introduction	3	(10)
Kenneth W. Harrow
II. Filmmakers' Words
Acceptance Speech: Fonlon-Nichols Prize	13	(6)
Assia Djebar
Aristotle's Plot (excerpts and comments)	19	(12)
Jean-Pierre Bekolo
Gaston Kabore interview	31	(10)
Debra Boyd
Ngozi Onwurah interview	41	(10)
Maureen N. Eke
III. Film Criticism
The Sublatern Speaks: Re-making Her/Story/in Assia Djebar's Film	51	(22)
Touria Khannous
A Man is Being Raped: Nouri Bouzid's Man of Ashe	73	(16)
Jarrod Hayes
The Cameroonian Film as An Instrument of Social and Political Change	89	(20)
S. Ekema Agbaw
La Haine, or Culture Wars in Paris	109	(18)
Stephen Zacks
IV. Literary Criticism
The Projectionist in Sylvain Bemba's Reves portatifs	127	(12)
Lydie Moudelino
Sycorax Video Style	139	(14)
Linda Helstern
Restaging the Past: The Tale of the Beautiful Daughter	153	(16)
Carmela Garritano
Race, Gender, and Islam	169	(14)
Lamia Ben Youssef
Contributors	183	(2)
Editors	185	(2)
Index	187