Projections of Dakar

Devin Bryson is a professor of French and Francophone studies in the global studies program at Illinois College. He has published work in Research in African Literatures, the Journal of the African Literature Association, and African Studies Review. His research focuses on the cultural, cinematic, and literary practices and products from Francophone Africa, especially Senegal, and how those practices and products circulate locally and globally to reconfigure conceptualizations of African people, spaces, and relations. Molly Krueger Enz is a professor of French and the global studies program coordinator at South Dakota State University. Her research interests include gender studies, postcolonial studies, and Francophone literature and cinema from West Africa and the Caribbean. She has published articles in Black Camera, African Studies Quarterly, the Journal of the African Literature Association, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, the French Review, and Nineteenth-Century French Studies.

Devin Bryson and Molly Krueger Enz offer a cogent overview of some of the major cinematic works produced in the last few decades by Senegalese filmmakers residing in Senegal. Drawing on important theoretical frameworks of leading African thinkers and film scholars, this book offers a deft discussion of the seminal themes that have emerged in African intellectual circles as they relate to contemporary Senegalese film. - Valerie K. Orlando, University of Maryland The chapters are solid, well researched, and provide a good background to analyze Senegalese urban films of the past 25 years. Discursively, it enters into dialogue with works such as Ken Harrow's African Cinema (1999), Felwine Sarr's Afrotopia (2016), and Women in African Cinema (2020) by Bisshof and Van der Peer. Summing up: Recommended. (Choice)