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TIMBUKTU—THE CONTROVERSY - Abderrahmane Sissako, director. Timbuktu. Original title: Timbuktu, le chagrin des oiseaux. 2014. 97 minutes. In French, Bambara, Songhay, Tamashek, Arabic, and English. France/Mauritania. Worso Films.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2016

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Phyllis Taoua ,
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African Studies Review , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , December 2016 , pp. 267 - 293
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Sissako, Abderrahmane, director. 2002. Heremakono (Waiting for Happiness) . France/Mauritania: Duo Films.Google Scholar
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Forster, Siegfried. 2015. “‘Timbuktu’ chahuté, pourquoi tant de haine?” RFI Afrique, February 26.Google Scholar
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Reitzer, Juliette. 2014. “Interview with Abderrahmane Sissako, Director of ‘Timbuktu.’” Troiscouleurs, December 9. www.troiscouleurs.fr.Google Scholar
Said, Edward. 1983. The World, the Text, and the Critic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Sellier, Geneviève. 2015. “‘Timbuktu,’ une esthétique orientaliste au service de la politique française.” Le Monde Diplomatique, December 24.Google Scholar
Tilouine, Joan. 2015. “‘Salafistes’, le documentaire qui a inspiré ‘Timbuktu.’” Le Monde, December 10. www.lemonde.fr.Google Scholar
Roy, Olivier. 2015. “Le Djihadisme est une révolte générationnelle et nihiliste.” Le Monde, November 24. www.lemonde.fr.Google Scholar
de Rochebrune, Renaud. “Abderrahmane Sissaki: ‘Au Mali les Touaregs sont à voir comme des victimes.’” Jeune Afrique, May 19.Google Scholar
Salem, Lemine Ould M. 2012. “A Tombouctou la charria s’applique aussi aux soldats de Dieu.” Libération, November 25.Google Scholar
Sellier, Geneviève. 2015. “Timbuktu, une esthétique orientaliste au service de la politique française.” Le Monde Diplomatique, February 24.Google Scholar
Taoua, Phyllis. 2015. “Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuku and Its Controversial Reception.” African Studies Review 58 (2): 270–78.Google Scholar
Utley, Gertje. 2000. Picasso: The Communist Years. New Haven: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
Williams, Raymond. 1961. The Long Revolution. London: Chatto & Windus.Google Scholar
Williams, Raymond, and Orrom, Michael. 1954. Preface to Film. London: Film Drama.Google Scholar
Boukhrief, Nicolas, director. 2015. Made in France. France: Canal+.Google Scholar
Sissako, Abderrahmane, director. 1999. La Vie sur terre (Life on Earth) . Mali/France: La Sept Arte, Haut et Court.Google Scholar
Sissako, Abderrahmane, director. 2002. Heremakono (Waiting for Happiness) . France/Mauritania: Duo Films.Google Scholar
Sissako, Abderrahmane, director. 2006. Bamako. France/Mali: Archipel 33.Google Scholar
Sissako, Abderrahmane, director. 2014. Timbuktu, le chagrin des oiseaux. (Timbuktu). France/Mauritania: Worso Films.Google Scholar
Pontecorvo, Gillo, director. Battle of Algiers. 1966. Italy/Algeria: Igor Film/Casbah Film.Google Scholar
Anderson, John. 2015. “The Enemy as Hapless Clown: Abderrahmane Sissako on the Jihadists in ‘Timbuktu.’” New York Times, January 23.Google Scholar
Barlet, Olivier. 1998. “À propos de La Vie sur Terre.” Entretien d’Olivier Barlet avec Abderrhamane Sissako. Africultures 1 (9).Google Scholar
Beau, Nicolas. 2015. “Abderrahmane Sissako, une imposture mauritanienne.” http://mondafrique.com.Google Scholar
Bourgeot, André. 2014. “Le film Timbuktu, fiction documentée? Conte pour occidentaux?” December 20. http://www.maliweb.net.Google Scholar
Butler, Judith. 2012. Parting Ways. New York: Columbia University Press.Google Scholar
Césaire, Aimé. 1956 (1939). Cahier d’un retour au pays natal. Paris: Présence africaine.Google Scholar
Cessou, Sabine. 2014. “Timbuktu, le film d’Abderhamane Sissako, loin de la réalité.” Le Nouvel Observateur, December 22.Google Scholar
Couao-Zotti, Florent. 2015. “Timbuktu: La surenchère émotionnelle.” May 22. www.courrierdesafriques.net.Google Scholar
Diawara, Manthia. 2015. “Frames of Resistance.” Artforum International 53 (5): 75–76, 78.Google Scholar
Dowd, Vincent. 2014. “Timbuktu Film at Cannes Mixes Tragedy, Charm and Humour.” BBC World Service, May 20.Google Scholar
Duc, Axel. 2014. “Timbuktu: Un Film de Abderrahmane Sissako—Dossier d’Accompagnement Pédagogique.” wwwzerodeconduite.net.Google Scholar
Forster, Siegfried. 2015. “‘Timbuktu’ chahuté, pourquoi tant de haine?” RFI Afrique, February 26.Google Scholar
Forster, Siegfried. 2016. “‘Salafistes’ et ‘Timbuktu’, enquête sur une querelle d’images.” RFI Afrique, February 3. http://www.rfi.fr.Google Scholar
Gikandi, Simon. 2001. “Theory, Literature, and Moral Considerations.” Research in African Literatures 32 (4): 1–18.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gilroy, Paul. 1995. The Black Atlantic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Girard, René. 1972. La violence et le sacré. Paris: Grasse.Google Scholar
Joubert, Aline. 2015. “Critiquer Timbuktu, entre anti-conformisme et snobisme.” Marianne, February 27. http://www.marianne.net.Google Scholar
Lecocq, Baz. 2004. “Unemployed Intellectuals in the Sahara: The Teshumara Nationalist Movement and the Revolutions in Tuareg Society.” In Popular Intellectuals and Social Movements: Framing Protest in Asia, Africa and Latin America, edited by Baud, Michiel and Rutten, Rosanne, 87–110. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Lecocq, Baz. 2010. Disputed Desert. Amsterdam: Brill.Google Scholar
Métaoui, Fayçal. 2014. “Un regard figé sur l’Afrique.” El Watan, December 23.Google Scholar
Les nouvelles du Mali. 2014. “Le Timbuktu de Sissako n’est pas le tombouctou que j’ai vécu.” May 16. http://faty.mondoblog.org.Google Scholar
Okeowo, Alexis. 2015. “A Movie That Dares to Humanize Jihadists.” The New Yorker, March 5.Google Scholar
Ould M. Salem, Lemine. 2012. “A Tombouctou la charria s’applique aussi aux soldats de Dieu.” Libération, November 25.Google Scholar
Mohamed, Ould, Vetah, Abdel. 2011. “L’autre village.” www.loree-des-reves.com.Google Scholar
Paslay, Victoria. 2016. “Beyond Violence in Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu.” African Studies Review 59 (3): 294–301.Google Scholar
Reitzer, Juliette. 2014. “Interview with Abderrahmane Sissako, Director of ‘Timbuktu.’” Troiscouleurs, December 9. www.troiscouleurs.fr.Google Scholar
Said, Edward. 1983. The World, the Text, and the Critic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Sellier, Geneviève. 2015. “‘Timbuktu,’ une esthétique orientaliste au service de la politique française.” Le Monde Diplomatique, December 24.Google Scholar
Tilouine, Joan. 2015. “‘Salafistes’, le documentaire qui a inspiré ‘Timbuktu.’” Le Monde, December 10. www.lemonde.fr.Google Scholar
Roy, Olivier. 2015. “Le Djihadisme est une révolte générationnelle et nihiliste.” Le Monde, November 24. www.lemonde.fr.Google Scholar
de Rochebrune, Renaud. “Abderrahmane Sissaki: ‘Au Mali les Touaregs sont à voir comme des victimes.’” Jeune Afrique, May 19.Google Scholar
Salem, Lemine Ould M. 2012. “A Tombouctou la charria s’applique aussi aux soldats de Dieu.” Libération, November 25.Google Scholar
Sellier, Geneviève. 2015. “Timbuktu, une esthétique orientaliste au service de la politique française.” Le Monde Diplomatique, February 24.Google Scholar
Taoua, Phyllis. 2015. “Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuku and Its Controversial Reception.” African Studies Review 58 (2): 270–78.Google Scholar
Utley, Gertje. 2000. Picasso: The Communist Years. New Haven: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
Williams, Raymond. 1961. The Long Revolution. London: Chatto & Windus.Google Scholar
Williams, Raymond, and Orrom, Michael. 1954. Preface to Film. London: Film Drama.Google Scholar