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The Silent Monologue by Khady Sylla and Charlie Van Damme: Some (not so New) Gendered Stories of Globalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Odile Cazenave
Odile Cazenave*
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Boston University, USA
*
Odile Cazenave, Department of Romance Studies, Boston University, 718 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper examines how, building on earlier filmic representations such as Ousmane Sembene's La Noire de… and Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako, Khady Sylla's Le Monologue de la muette traces a continuum of women's exploitation, from slavery to colonization to globalization.

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Diogenes , Volume 62 , Issue 1: Gender, globalisation, and cinema , February 2015 , pp. 48 - 56
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Copyright © ICPHS 2017

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