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L’Éthique Et L’Esthétique Chez Ousmane Sembéne, Frederic Ivor Case Dec 2008

L’Éthique Et L’Esthétique Chez Ousmane Sembéne, Frederic Ivor Case

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The ethics and aesthetics of the films and novels of Sembène reflect the axiological principles of his work. Sembène’s impact can be felt throughout as his practice in both cinema and literature helped redefi ne the features of the African novel and film. For him, writing was fed by the experiences, however painful, of workers of diverse origins attempting to survive their difficult conditions. His novels reveal the agony of this world but also various opportunities for self realization among his characters. Such practice, born out of the sweat, resistance and determination of men and women eking out their living, …


De La Fiction Criminelle En Afrique. Relecture Des Films D’Ousmane Sembène, Alexie Tcheuyap Dec 2008

De La Fiction Criminelle En Afrique. Relecture Des Films D’Ousmane Sembène, Alexie Tcheuyap

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

For institutional, ideological and even sociological reasons, the detective genre had difficulty rising to prominence within literatures and especially within the field of African cinema. If one observes today its shy emergence in the works of some West African film directors and within popular Nigerian video films, it is nonetheless possible, thanks to a finer scrutiny of theories developed on the subject, to realize that some films by Ousmane Sembène contain aesthetic strategies that allow for a fresh assessment of the works of a director whose films were often reduced to their ideological aspects. This second reading also unravels the …


Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V. 70) Jun 2008

Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V. 70)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Bent Familia De Nouri Bouzid : Enjeux De L’Amitié, De La Clairvoyance Féminine Et Du Questionnement, Hélène Tissières Dec 2007

Bent Familia De Nouri Bouzid : Enjeux De L’Amitié, De La Clairvoyance Féminine Et Du Questionnement, Hélène Tissières

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Bent Familia by the Tunisian filmmaker Nouri Bouzid breaks down silences by questioning norms and power structures, including patriarchal authority. Centered on an exceptional friendship between three women and examining their preoccupations as well as their needs, the film reveals the empowering forces of sharing, insightfulness and engagement. Through the character of Aïda and the intertwinement of arts – in particular music and painting – the film dismantles absolutes and illusions. It encourages deep questioning in order to trace new paths, valuing the clear-sighted contributions of women in a continuously changing society.


Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V.69) Dec 2007

Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V.69)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Alexie Tcheuyap (2005). De L’Écran À L’Écrit.Les Réécritures Filmiques Du Roman Africain Francophone, Zacharie Petnkeu Nzepa Dec 2006

Alexie Tcheuyap (2005). De L’Écran À L’Écrit.Les Réécritures Filmiques Du Roman Africain Francophone, Zacharie Petnkeu Nzepa

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V. 66) Jun 2006

Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V. 66)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Entre Intertextualité Et Réécriture, Alexie Tcheuyap Dec 2005

Entre Intertextualité Et Réécriture, Alexie Tcheuyap

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Aesthetic practices have become more and more diversified in contemporary cultures. Although rewritings and adaptations are most common from literature to film, from myth/epic to novels, African filmmakers have recently been inaugurating novelization, that is the literary rewriting of a film. This essay examines the case of the Algerian filmmaker Merzac Allouache, who has written Bab el-Oued City, based on his film Bab el-Oued, in order to escape the technical and practical limitations of cinema. In doing so, he best expresses the challenges of contemporary Algeria, which is permanently threatened by violence and Islamic fundamentalism.


L’Intertextualité Géopolitique Dans Le Petit Chat Est Mort De Fejria Deliba, Sarah B. Buchanan Dec 2005

L’Intertextualité Géopolitique Dans Le Petit Chat Est Mort De Fejria Deliba, Sarah B. Buchanan

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

In this article, Buchanan examines how Fejria Deliba’s short film, Le petit chat est mort, questions the ideas that conservative members of North African and French communities mobilize to separate themselves from each other. Using theories of intertextuality and geopolitical conscience, Buchanan illustrates how “imagined communities” are always influenced by other national narrations, and how “home” is never isolated, pure or preserved. On the contrary, Buchanan highlights how Deliba presents the French and North African cultures as spaces of intersection and interface, that is, of intertext.


Désir Et Impuissance Dans Halfaouine Et Bye-Bye, Scott Homler Dec 2005

Désir Et Impuissance Dans Halfaouine Et Bye-Bye, Scott Homler

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The experience of adolescence and the trials of Arab and Beur masculinity are explored in the films of Férid Boughédir and Karim Dridi in order to reveal the psychology and the politics of masculinity in evolution. Studying two films, Halfaouine and Bye-Bye, as well as the autobiography of Abdelkébir Khatibi entitled La mémoire tatouée, we see that they reflect a number of discursive stages of an emergent identity of protest that is based on flight and self-destruction.


Problèmes Et Enjeux De L’Adaptation En Algérie, Mehana Amrani Dec 2005

Problèmes Et Enjeux De L’Adaptation En Algérie, Mehana Amrani

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

As in all postcolonial societies confronted with the question of illiteracy, in Algeria, film adaptations pose a political and cultural stake. Due to the phenomena of political and moral censure and self-censorship, only ten novels were carried over to the screen during one 36-year period. However, with the rebirth of Algerian cinema in the Nineties, screenwriters are once again interested in setting Algerian novels in images. These new adaptations, which are often done in co-production with France and Belgium, introduce the new problems of language. The audience for these films, which are expressed mainly in French, is thus likely limited …


L’Écriture De La Femme Musulmane Dans Loin Demédine D’Assia Djebar, Yvonne-Marie Mokam Dec 2005

L’Écriture De La Femme Musulmane Dans Loin Demédine D’Assia Djebar, Yvonne-Marie Mokam

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Assia Djebar is one of the most important figures in contemporary African literature. Her views are structured around a critique of the misrepresentation of Muslim women. It is precisely this challenge that is undertaken in Loin de Médine (1991), in which Djebar challenges various stereotypes in order to offer a new image of Asian women.


Le Français D’Origine Maghrébine Face Au Prisme Médiatique, Hassiba Lassoued Dec 2005

Le Français D’Origine Maghrébine Face Au Prisme Médiatique, Hassiba Lassoued

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Whether we admit it or not, the mass media manipulates the masses. This fact proves to be especially dangerous in the context of French people of Maghrebian origin. The media presents them as either incapable of being “assimilated” or as models of integration. At any rate, there seems to be no middle ground between these two extremes.


Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V. 64) Jun 2005

Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V. 64)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V.63) Dec 2004

Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V.63)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Parties Annexes Dec 2003

Parties Annexes

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V. 61) Dec 2003

Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V. 61)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Présence Francophone, Numéro 61 (2003) Dec 2003

Présence Francophone, Numéro 61 (2003)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V.60) Jun 2003

Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V.60)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


De L’Aliénation À La Libération, Alexie Tcheuyap Jun 2003

De L’Aliénation À La Libération, Alexie Tcheuyap

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This essay addresses the issue of education in pre and post-colonial Africa. It examines the ideological discourses, challenges and consequences associated with the adoption of western education in African countries. Based on novels and films, some of which are set in universities, the article analyses the effects of violence and irrelevant syllabi on African education, and argues that in order for knowledge to serve as a tool for real liberation, it has to be relevant to the social environment. It contends further that, paradoxically, even colonial education can contribute towards the liberation of Africans from some problematic aspects of their …


Parties Annexes Jun 2003

Parties Annexes

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Front Matter And Table Of Contents (N° 57) Dec 2001

Front Matter And Table Of Contents (N° 57)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Présence Francophone, Numéro 57 Dec 2001

Présence Francophone, Numéro 57

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Présentation, Sada Niang, Alexie Tcheuyap Dec 2001

Présentation, Sada Niang, Alexie Tcheuyap

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Littérature D'Afrique Noire Francophone Et Cinéma. Bibliographie Indicative, Sada Niang, Alexie Tcheuyap Dec 2001

Littérature D'Afrique Noire Francophone Et Cinéma. Bibliographie Indicative, Sada Niang, Alexie Tcheuyap

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Bibliography and filmography of literary and cinematic works from French-speaking black Africa.


« Bessette, Y A-Tu Shaké L'Systeme? » - L'Orallté Chez Gérard Bessette, G. Aileen Clark Dec 2001

« Bessette, Y A-Tu Shaké L'Systeme? » - L'Orallté Chez Gérard Bessette, G. Aileen Clark

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The purpose of this article is to study the use of oral markers in five excerpts from works by Gérard Bessette. The synchronic analysis looks at the author's use of vernacular in the narrative discourse. The diachronic analysis shows how and why the use of spoken French in the narrative discourse has changed since the publication of the novel La bagarre (1958).


André Djiffack (2000). Mongo Beti. La Quête De La Liberté, Paris, L'Harmattan. Isbn 2-7384-8831-5, Alexie Tcheuyap Dec 2001

André Djiffack (2000). Mongo Beti. La Quête De La Liberté, Paris, L'Harmattan. Isbn 2-7384-8831-5, Alexie Tcheuyap

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Christopher L. Miller (1999), Nationalists And Nomads, Essays On Francophone African Literature And Culture 1, Chicago Et London, The University Of Chicago Press, 258 P., Ambroise Kom Dec 2001

Christopher L. Miller (1999), Nationalists And Nomads, Essays On Francophone African Literature And Culture 1, Chicago Et London, The University Of Chicago Press, 258 P., Ambroise Kom

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Livres Reçus (N° 57) Dec 2001

Livres Reçus (N° 57)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Index (N° 57) Dec 2001

Index (N° 57)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.