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    The Performance of the Intellectual in SembeneOusmane’sFilms:Mandabi(1968) and Xala (1974).
    (University Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou, 2016-09) CHELLAL, Ouiza; HEMDANI, Lydia
    This piece of research intends to discuss the issue of the representation of intellectuals by Senegalese film producer and novelist SembeneOusmane. His films Mandabi(1968) and Xala (1974) constitute the corpus in this study. To prove our assumptions, we rely on Fanon’s theory he develops in The Wretched of the Earth (1961); mainly in the chapters “The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness”and “On Violence”.The films are a denunciation of neocolonial disasters the intellectuals maintain. The neocolonial leaders are responsible for post-independence chaos;such as corruption and exploitation. Another issue raised is the function of the peasantry guided by true intellectuals in the overturn of these disasters.