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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Finzan (a Dance for the Heroes)
  name:
    name part: Sissoko, Cheick Oumar
    name part: 1945-
    role:
      role term: film director.
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm)
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  genre: Feature films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: bam
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 112 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
  abstract: In Finzan, Cheick Oumar Sissoko has skillfully crafted a film which raises one of the most important issues of African rural life, the status of women, in a style accessible to every villager. Finzan tells the story of two women's rebellion. Nanyuma, a young widow defies her brother-in-law, the village fool, when he asserts his traditional right to "inherit" her. Fili, a young woman sent from the city by her conservative father, is brutally "circumcised" by village women, scandalized by her refusal to submit to this ancient ritual. Sissoko weaves these two stories together into a painfully realistic picture of village society, tragically unable to free itself from the past."A passionate and convincing plea for the emancipation of African women." — New York Times. "Bracing, wholly exhilarating... dedicated to the African woman." — Village Voice. "An important film an enriching discovery for any American audience." — Louis Malle.
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Originally produced by California Newsreel in 1990.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    topic: Bambara
    topic: Social life and customs
    topic: Marriage customs and rites
    geographic: Africa
    geographic: Mali
  subject:
    topic: Bambara
    genre: Drama
    geographic: Africa
    geographic: Mali
  identifier: 1136828 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: UtOrBLW
    record creation date: 150408
    record change date: 20260324182158.2
    record identifier: in00003586321
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng