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A 1 page discussion that addresses the main topics covered in Sembene Ousmane's novel, God's Bits of Wood. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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situation in Senegal at the end of the colonial period. Ousmane, himself, has stated that the point of the novel is its "temporal and thematic stereography, its intervention into two
moments at once, produces not an allegory, but rather a revisionary representation of each moment as it is perceived from the perspective of the other" (Smith 51). The crux
of the novel concerns political negotiation as it involves an "interrogation of class and race" as seen through a double set of relationships (Smith 51). The first relationship concerns the
correlation between trade union recognition and anti-colonial agitation (Smith 51). The second relationship examines the interaction between class consciousness and the organization of the nation (Smith 51). The main
action of the novel take place at the zenith of the nationalist era, Ousmane shows that the political agenda of the nationalists encompassed a broader vision that could be applied
toward an independent Senegal (Smith 51). The first beginnings of postwar nationalism, which are dramatized in the context of labor recognition in the novel, provide a sort of "typological foreshadowing"
that implies the "end of anti-colonialism" (Smith 52). In other words, the political consciousness of the people of Senegal, as a free and independent people, is just beginning to form
at the time of the novels action. The main thrust of the action agitates for fairness within a colonial framework that only hints at the anti-colonial strategies that will come
later (Smith 53). As Smith points out, the novel was written in the 1950s and published in 1960, just when it appeared that the nationalist movement was succeeding and
Senegal was achieving its independence (53). Therefore, the main point to the novel is to remind the populace, and particularly its president, Leopold Sedar Senghor, of the "sacrifices made by
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