Xala (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Ousmane Sembène
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Early 1970’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Satire
- Subjects: Culture, Freedom, 1970’s, Africa or Africans, Folkloric or magical people, Class conflict, Supernatural, Polygamy or bigamy, Revenge, Senegal or Senegalese people, Business or business people, Witches or witchcraft, Begging or beggars
- Locales: Dakar, Senegal
Places Discussed
*Senegal. Country located at the extreme western tip of West Africa, a humid tropical region in which agricultural productivity is limited and most people who live in rural areas are desperately poor. Xala generally ignores the areas of Senegal outside the capital city, Dakar, because it focuses on the new African elite, who remain in their comparatively prosperous urban enclaves and shun what they consider primitive and undesirable regions. At the same time, however, Sembène has the rest of the country in mind as he ridicules the protagonist and his...
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