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New African Cinema examines the pressing social, cultural, economic, and historical issues explored by African filmmakers from the early post-colonial years into the new millennium. Offering an overview of the development of postcolonial African cinema since the 1960s, Valérie K. Orlando highlights the variations in content and themes that reflect the socio-cultural and political environments of filmmakers and the cultures they depict in their films. Orlando illuminates the diverse themes evident in the works of filmmakers such as Ousmane Sembène's Ceddo (Senegal, 1977), Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga (Angola, 1972), Assia Djebar's La Nouba des femmes de Mont Chenoua (The Circle of women of Mount Chenoua, Algeria, 1978), Zézé Gamboa's The Hero (Angola, 2004) and Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu (Mauritania, 2014), among others. Orlando also considers the influence of major African film schools and their traditions, as well as European and American influences on the marketing and distribution of African film. For those familiar with the polemics of African film, or new to them, Orlando offers a cogent analytical approach that is engaging.
Motion pictures --- Television programs --- Programs, Television --- Shows, Television --- Television shows --- TV shows --- Television broadcasting --- Electronic program guides (Television) --- Television scripts --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History. --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- Drug addiction --- Drug addicts --- Addiction to drugs --- Drug dependence --- Drug dependency --- Drug habit --- Narcotic addiction --- Narcotic habit --- Narcotics addiction --- Drug abuse --- Treatment --- Rehabilitation --- History
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Disputing the claim that Algerian writing during the struggle against French colonial rule dealt almost exclusively with revolutionary themes, The Algerian New Novel shows how Algerian authors writing in French actively contributed to the experimental forms of the period, expressing a new age literarily as well as politically and culturally. Looking at canonical Algerian literature as part of the larger literary production in French during decolonization, Val{acute}erie K. Orlando considers how novels by Rachid Boudjedra, Mohammed Dib, Assia Djebar, Nabile Far{grave}es, Yamina Mechakra, and Kateb Yacine both influenced and were reflectors of the sociopolitical and cultural transformation that took place during this period in Algeria. Although their themes were rooted in Algeria, the avant-garde writing styles of these authors were influenced by early twentieth-century American modernists, the New Novelists of 1940s-50s France, and African American authors of the 1950s-60s. This complex mix of influences led Algerian writers to develop a unique modern literary aesthetic to express their world, a tradition of experimentation and fragmentation that still characterizes the work of contemporary Algerian francophone writers.
Algerian fiction (French) --- French fiction --- Algerian literature (French) --- History and criticism.
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"This volume explores what it is that has brought marginalized writers together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period to the present millennium, we consider the questions that have influenced and continue to shape the realm of exiled writers who have sought refuge in Paris in order to write"--
Expatriate authors --- Intellectual life --- Paris (France) --- Authors --- Authors, Exiled
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This volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haiti's complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Making broad connections between Haiti and the rest of the Caribbean, contributors provide pedagogical guidance on how to approach the country from different lenses in course curricula. They offer practical suggestions, theories on a wide variety of texts, examples of syllabi, and classroom experiences. 'Teaching Haiti' dispels stereotypes associating Haiti with disaster, poverty, and negative ideas of Vodou, going beyond the simplistic neocolonial, imperialist, and racist descriptions often found in literary and historical accounts.
Manners and customs. --- Haiti --- Social life and customs --- History. --- History --- Study and teaching.
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Par cet ouvrage collectif, nous espérons apporter une plus-value à la recherche sur les migrations, tout en interrogeant différentes réalités et concepts régulièrement diffusés, en particulier dans le contexte du Maroc contemporain. Nous espérons que ces réflexions pourront se poursuivre dans différents cadres, s’élargir, être interpellées, confortées ou réinterrogées, actualisées pour soutenir les analyses futures sur ces questions fondamentales et une meilleure connaissance des migrations et du cosmopolitisme au Maroc.
Geography --- migrations --- cosmopolitisme --- migrations religieuses --- transformations sociales --- étrangers --- Subsahariens
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