Images de la femme dans l'oeuvre litteraire de Sembene Ousmane

One of the main reasons, for the Senegalese author Sembene Ousmane's prominence in African literature of French expression is that he, more than any other male African author, has sought to give to the female characters in his literary works an important role in African Society. This thesis analyses the female characters in Sembene's literary works with the aim of evaluating their importance, the author's attitude towards them and finally Sembene's feminism. The first five chapters analyse the female characters in different contexts, namely marriage, the family, work, politics and religion. the sixth chapter studies the usually avoided subject of the dissolute woman. The last chapter deals with the place given to women in Sembene's writing, ie. the comparison between the number of male and female characters and the narrative techniques which he utilizes to characterize the latter.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

French Language and Literature

Year dc:date.issued

1991

Author dc:creator

• Vrancken, Maria do Céu Oliveira

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Wynchank, Anny

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23429

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/23429