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Georges Lang
George Lang is professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of Ottawa (Canada). From 2004 to 2009, he was dean of the Faculty of arts of the University of Ottawa. He has published several articles on the literature and the poetry of africa.
Three questions arise immediately to the terms set forth for this workshop, and a fourth, the nature of the translation, flat next to the fact that our theme and our actions are bilingual. What is the memory or what is it not ? How the memory hinges-t-she or unfolds-she at the cinema ? Are there any particular ways and for particular purposes, according to which memory is represented or manipulated in african cinema ? This last question requires, however, another : is there even an object of theoretical stand-alone name african cinema, or this entity is she a construct that criticism is, to use an expression now worn out of our distinguished colleague VY Mudimbe, has been invented ?
