Returning home: Djibril Diop Mambety's Hyènes

Returning home: Djibril Diop Mambety's Hyènes

Author: 
Gabor-Peirce, Olivia
Publisher: 
Taylor & Francis Group
Date published: 
2012
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Journal Title: 
Journal of African Cultural Studies
Source: 
Journal of African Cultural Studies , Volume 23, Number 2, December 2011, PP.189-203
ISSN: 
1369-6815
Abstract: 

This paper investigates how African filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambety transforms the notable Swiss playwright and novelist Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit) into a portrait of the universality of moral corruption in modernity. The title of his film is Hyènes.

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CITATION: Gabor-Peirce, Olivia. Returning home: Djibril Diop Mambety's Hyènes . : Taylor & Francis Group , 2012. Journal of African Cultural Studies , Volume 23, Number 2, December 2011, PP.189-203 - Available at: https://library.au.int/returning-home-djibril-diop-mambetys-hyènes-2