"Locomotion and Time in West African Cinema": A talk by Charles Sugnet November 14, 2008

Charles Sugnet is a professor of English at the University of Minnesota where he specializes in postcolonial literature, especially the fiction and film of the African diaspora. Among other publications, he is recently the author of "Real-time Africa: A traveling exhibit gives the lie to 'primitive' Africa," a review of the largest ever exhibition of African contemporary art at the Hayward Museum in London and the Pompidou in France, Utne Reader (March/April 2006) and "Wolof Orality, Senghorian Literacy, and the Status of Cinema in Djibril Diop Mambety's La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil." The French Review, 79.6 (May 2006).

Official Website: http://www.ias.umn.edu/collabs08-09/TransnationalFilm.php