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Women and posters as heterotopias in Ousmane Sembene’s Xala
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Abstract
This article analyses the connections between the female characters of Ousmane Sembene’s Xala and the diegetic posters seen on the walls during the film, which yields a new conversation on Michel Foucault’s heterotopias as utopias or non-spaces. As a result, women, posters and heterotopias define the spatial evolution of the main characters (including the male) as well as that of the film itself.
Title: Women and posters as heterotopias in Ousmane Sembene’s Xala
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Abstract
This article analyses the connections between the female characters of Ousmane Sembene’s Xala and the diegetic posters seen on the walls during the film, which yields a new conversation on Michel Foucault’s heterotopias as utopias or non-spaces.
As a result, women, posters and heterotopias define the spatial evolution of the main characters (including the male) as well as that of the film itself.
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