| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
After the Empire: the Francophone World and Postcolonial France |
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After the empire.
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| Contents |
Shifting Perceptions of Migration in Senegalese Literature, Film, and Social Media; Contents; Preface; Part I: Historical Contexts: Mid-Twentieth Century Senegal; 1 Introduction: Beyond the Fou and the Failed Scholar; 2 Between Text and Film: Emigration in the Work of Ousmane Sembène and Djibril Diop Mambéty; Part II: Writing Elsewhere: Mobile Texts and Authors; 3 Return as Rehabilitation: The Novels of Aminata Sow Fall and Ken Bugul; 4 Fatou Diome's View from Afar in Le Ventre de l'Atlantique and Kétala; Part III: Global Dialogues on Departure |
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5 Hip-Hop Galsen: Local and Global Approaches to Migration6 Documentaries Here and There: The "Truth" about Life Abroad; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
Shifting Perceptions of Migration in Senegalese Literature, Film, and Social Media takes a multimedia approach to examining representations of emigration from Senegal through the analysis of novels, films, hip-hop songs, and online videos in French and Wolof. Mahriana Rofheart demonstrates how Senegalese creative producers at home and abroad have formally and thematically confronted emigration from Senegal to Europe with texts that recon |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration in literature.
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Hip-hop -- Social aspects -- Senegal
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Emigration and immigration
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Emigration and immigration in literature
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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| SUBJECT |
Senegal -- Emigration and immigration
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Senegal -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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| Subject |
Senegal
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780739175132 |
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0739175130 |
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1306282160 |
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9781306282161 |
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