Rise of a Nation: An Exploration of Vieyra's Vision for Senegal Through Une nation est née

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Timothy Lomeli
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Abstract:Paulin Soumanou Vieyra's vision for African cinema was born out of the lack of proper representation for Africans in Western cinema. Thus, his films explore narratives of Africans on the big screen, those whose roles, as Vieyra himself writes in Le cinéma au Sénégal (1983), had previously been relegated to that of "Y a bon Banania," or that of the educated and reformed savage (52). One of his films that showcases the plurality and hybridity of Africans is Une nation est née (1961). The film, created on the backdrop of the Senegalese Independence Day celebration, is a journey through the forgotten history of the peoples of the newly formed nation, from precolonial times to the fight for independence. This film relies on the novel L'Aventure Ambiguë, by Cheikh Hamidou Kane, to structure and tell its story, but it also goes beyond Kane's work to envision the future of Senegal, in order to create a new history of Senegal and work to construct a national identity.
一个国家的崛起:从一个国家的视角看维埃拉对塞内加尔的设想
摘要:波林·苏马努·维埃拉对非洲电影的设想源于西方电影中缺乏对非洲人的恰当表现。因此,他的电影探索了大银幕上非洲人的故事,这些角色,正如维埃拉自己在《快乐的香蕉》(1983)中所写的那样,以前被归为“快乐的香蕉”,或者是受过教育和改革的野蛮人(52)。他的一部展示非洲人多元性和杂交性的电影是1961年的《一个国家的生活》。这部电影以塞内加尔独立日庆祝活动为背景,讲述了这个新成立国家的人民从前殖民时代到争取独立的被遗忘的历史。本片取材于谢赫·哈米杜·凯恩(Cheikh Hamidou Kane)的小说《冒险Ambiguë》(L' adventure Ambiguë)来构建和讲述故事,但它也超越凯恩的作品,展望塞内加尔的未来,以创造塞内加尔的新历史,并努力构建国家认同。
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Black Camera FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-
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