Tribal Scars

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Tribal Scars
Author Ousmane Sembene
Translator Len Ortzen
Country Senegal
Language English
Genre(s) General Fiction
Publisher INSCAPE (US)
Publication date 1975
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 117 (US hardback)
ISBN ISBN 0-879-53015-4 (US)

Tribal Scars is a collection of short stories by Senegalese author Ousmane Sembene. It was originally published in French as Voltaique.

[edit] Contents

  • "The False Prophet"
  • "The Bilal's Fourth Wife"
  • "In the Face of History"
  • "Love in Sandy Lane"
  • "A Matter of Conscience"
  • "The Mother"
  • "Her Three Days"
  • "Letters from France"
  • "The Community"
  • "Chaiba the Algerian"
  • "The Promised Land"
  • "Tribal Scars or The Voltaique"

[edit] Adaptations

Sembene, also a filmmaker, adapted the short story "The Promised Land" into a 1966 feature film entitled Black Girl.

[edit] Book information

Tribal Scars (English edition) by Ousmane Sembene; translation by Len Ortzen

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