Ousmane Sembene

by Busch, Annett

• ISBN13: 9781934110850
• ISBN10: 193411085X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

Even by the time Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembegrave;ne (1923-2007) was forty, he had lived an exceptional life. He joined the French army during World War II and moved from Senegal to France in 1948. There he worked for automaker Citroeuml;n, as well as on the docks of Marseille. Exposed to Marxism, he participated in railroad strikes and trade union movements. His early novels and short story collections gained him literary recognition both in Senegal and throughout sub-Saharan Africa.In his fortieth year, Sembegrave;ne directed the short film Borom Sarret, one of the first films directed by a black African and a movie that brought African cinema to the consciousness of the West. Sembegrave;ne's subsequent films--includingBlack Girl,Mandabi,Xala,Ceddo,Faat Kineacute;, andMoolaadeacute;--address contemporary African society and cultural issues with the filmmaker's characteristic wit and subtle satire. Known for urban themes and complex female protagonists, Sembegrave;ne's movies, both in French and in his native language Wolof, are considered pioneering masterworks of African cinema.Ousmane Sembegrave;ne: Interviewscollects conversations from the mid-1960s to 2005, and spans the breadth of his filmmaking career while also touching on his literary work and his role as a public intellectual. Many of these interviews appear here in English for the first time and come from French, German, African diaspora, and Senegalese periodicals.Annett Busch is a writer based in Munich, Germany. Her work has appeared inSpex,CameraAustria, andKolik. Max Annas of Cologne, Germany, is an author whose work has appeared inFilmdienstandEcrans d'Afrique, as well as in several books.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Chronology	p. xxiii
Filmography	p. xxv
A Historic Confrontation in 1965 between Jean Rouch and Ousmane Sembene: "You Look at Us as If We Were Insects"	p. 3
Ousmane Sembene: For Me, the Cinema Is an Instrument of Political Action, But ...	p. 7
We Are Governed in Black Africa by Colonialism's Disabled Children	p. 18
Filmmakers Have a Great Responsibility to Our People	p. 24
Ousmane Sembene Interviewed in Munich	p. 36
Ousmane Sembene: An Interview	p. 41
African Cinema Is Not a Cinema of Folklore	p. 52
Interview with Ousmane Sembene	p. 63
Interview with Ousmane Sembene	p. 72
Sembene Ousmane in Kinshasa	p. 82
Interview with Ousmane Sembene	p. 99
Interview with Ousmane Sembene	p. 105
In the Name of Tolerance: A Meeting with Ousmane Sembene	p. 112
Samori: The Last Grand Oeuvre of Sembene Ousmane	p. 117
I Am Tired, My Desire Is to Leave	p. 125
The Language of Real Life	p. 131
If I Were a Woman, I'd Never Marry an African	p. 134
Ousmane Sembene	p. 143
Interview with Ousmane Sembene	p. 151
Interview with Ousmane Sembene about Guelwaar	p. 163
Ousmane Sembene	p. 169
Still the Fire in the Belly: The Confessions of Ousmane Sembene	p. 178
Interview with Ousmane Sembene	p. 190
The Power of Female Solidarity: An Interview with Ousmane Sembene	p. 197
Ousmane Sembene	p. 210
Index	p. 219
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