Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
The representation of public speech continues to determine two major components of African text and film, that is, the dialogical and the narrative. As a site of relational negotiations, reminders of the doxa and ceremonial practices, this public word is formulated and refined in instances of verbal performance such as consultation (diiso), panegyric (tagg), farce (foh) or tirade (xas). For an author such as Ousmane Sembène, the elaboration of the text (Le dernier de l’Empire) and of the film (Guelwaar) constitutes a moment of aestheticization of the diiso during which the true meaning of social discourse and interpersonal relations manifests itself. However, the work of fiction and film first seems to reveal a particular utterance and script that distort and turn them over in order to redefine individual or collective destinies, and to express their relationship to the world in a different way.
Recommended Citation
Diouf, Mbaye
(2023)
"Ousmane Sembène : une esthétique du diiso,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 100:
No.
1, Article 15.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol100/iss1/15
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