Consumption and Dependency in Mandabi  

Oleh:

Lincoln, Sarah L.

Jenis: Article from Article
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature vol. 44 no. 3 (Sep. 2010), page 341-357.
Topik: Sembène; Mandabi; consumption; debt; dependency; Africa
Fulltext: Consumption and Dependency.pdf (368.38KB)

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In his 1968 film Mandabi, Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène warns of the consequences for sovereignty of unrestrained appetite and the easy credit that facilitates it. Sembène’s depiction of a poor man whose windfall gift of a money order leads ironically to increased debt, dependency and indignity is a cautionary allegory for his own newly postcolonial nation, which had received its first World Bank loan in 1966. Drawing on work by Frantz Fanon, J-F. Bayart and others, this essay examines the film’s critique of the “politics of the belly” in Africa and the effects of credit-fuelled consumerism on subjectivity, sovereignty and aesthetics in a postcolonial context.

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