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Silent Monologue = Le Monologue de la muette / ArtMattan Productions .
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Women household employees--Senegal--Dakar--Drama.
- Women household employees.
- Rural women--Senegal--Dakar--Drama.
- Rural women.
- Africa, North.
- North Africa.
- Genre:
- Internet videos
- Internet videos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (46 minutes)) : sound, color
- Distribution:
- New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2017.
- Contained In:
- Films on Demand.
- Other Title:
- Le Monologue de la muette
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : ArtMattan Productions, [2008]
- System Details:
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- We hear the thoughts of Amy, a girl from a rural area of Senegal who works as a housemaid for a well-to-do family in Dakar. She complains about her employer, who continuously criticizes her, and talks about her dream of one day opening her own eatery. In Dakar, some 150,000 young women work as housekeepers for rich families to support theri families instead of going to school.
- Contents:
- Silent Monologue: Introduction (8:45); Becoming a Young Maid (4:18); Mistreatment of Maids (7:37); Economic Changes in Dakar (4:56); Female Breadwinners in Senegal (3:08); Amy's Married Life (8:37); Future of Dakar's Economy (6:47); Credits: Silent Monologue (0:42);
- Notes:
- Originally released by ArtMattan Productions, 2008.
- Title from distributor's description
- OCLC:
- 1031085555
- Publisher Number:
- 145134 Infobase
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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