Humanities 104
Africa: From Conquest to Freedom
Alison Sainsbury/Jim Matthews
Bibliography of Resources
You will find listed below resources for class lectures, films, and discussions.
Lectures
January 20, 1997: A Nous la Parole
Gadjigo, Faulkingham, Cassirer, and Sander, editors, Ousmane Sembène: Dialogues with Critics and Writers. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press) 1993. IWU call #: PN1998.3.S397 O88 1993
Sembene, Ousmane, Current Biography April 1994 v55 n4 p48(6) (IWU)
Camp de Thiaroye. (movie reviews) John Pym. Sight and Sound Autumn 1989 v58 n4 p280(1) (IWU)
"Demystifying French Colonialism." (movie review) Africa Report Nov-Dec 1990 v35 n5 p69(3)
"Interview with Ousmane Sembene." Research in African Literatures, Fall 1995 v26 n3 p174(5)
Dennis, John Alfred. The Rene Maran Story: The Life and Times of a Black Frenchman, Colonial Administrator, Novelist, and Social Critic, 1887-1960. (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International) 1987. Call #: 845M325 DD424 1988 (University of Illinois-Urbana)
February 3, 1997: Place aux femmes!
Gay Wilenz, Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992)
Adeola James, ed., In Their Own Voices: African Women Writers Talk. (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1990)
Obioma Nnaemeka, "From orality to writing: African women writers and the (re)inscription of womanhood." Research in African Literatures, Winter 1994 v.25 n.4 pp. 137-158.
Web Pages
Listen to certain expressions in Wolof