Sembene

• Imagining Africa - Sembene & the problematics of resistance & representation in postcolonial discourse; the teller & the tale - writing alternative histories in "Voltaique" and "Vehi-Ciosane"; filming Africa - the location of an urban African discourse in "Le Mandat"/"Mandabi"; the indiscreet charm of the African bourgeoisie? consumerism, fetishism & socialism in "Xala"; mothers, daughters & prostitutes - the representation of women in Sembene's work; dis-membering empire, re-membering resistance - the memory of colonialism in "Emitai", "Ceddo", and "Camp de Thiaroye"; absence & power - the hollow centre of the neo-colonial order in "Le Dernier de l'empire" and "Guelwaar". Appendix: interview with Sembene.

Murphy is industrious: he has amassed a huge bibliography, and he is lucid, balanced, and intelligent in handling his sources. ...Murphy has performed a useful service in drawing together a wide-ranging array of materials, much of which will be unfamiliarto Anglophone readers.