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      Reconfiguring Senegalese filmmakers as Griots: Identity, migration and authorship practice

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      Author(s)
      Kayır, Oğuz
      Date
      2022
      Source Title
      International Journal of Francophone Studies
      Print ISSN
      1368-2679
      Electronic ISSN
      1758-9142
      Publisher
      Intellect
      Volume
      25
      Issue
      1-2
      Pages
      119 - 139
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This article aims to designate the notion of ‘Griot’ – the oral transmitter of history in West African cultures to the eclectic filmmakers from the post-independence period of Francophone Senegal who utilized film as an instrument to reassemble their nation’s lost image and carve an independent national identity that seeks liberation from the remnants of French imperial rule. Figuratively performing as Griots in the postcolonial film corpus, directors Ousmane Sembéne, Djibril Diop Mambéty and Mati Diop fabricated an original filmic language that represents the cultural milieu of Senegal after the French colonialism. In these directorial endeavours, the incorporation of narration elements plays a pivotal role in simultaneously manufacturing the agencies of Senegalese people and accelerating the continuum of decolonization in the country’s visual domain. Including the historical framework of Senegal’s cinema and illustrating the analogy between Griots and these filmmakers, this research will take a closer look at the corresponding postcolonial narratives of Ousmane Sembéne’s La Noire de… (1966), Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki (1973) and Mati Diop’s Atlantics (2019) in an effort to unravel their tumultuous identity politics, critiques of (neo)colonialism and filmmakers’ role as national raconteurs.
      Keywords
      Postcolonialism
      National identity
      Migration
      Senegalese cinema
      African directors
      France
      Narrative theory
      Griots
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/111578
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfs_00047_1
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