Maîtresse d'un homme marié: Retracing Womanhood in Senegalese Screen Worlds
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Published:April 2025
Estrella Sendra, 2025. "Maîtresse d'un homme marié: Retracing Womanhood in Senegalese Screen Worlds", Contemporary African Screen Worlds, Lindiwe Dovey, Añulika Agina, Michael W. Thomas
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This chapter seeks to explore the ways in which internet television is transforming the screen media industry in Senegal, through a focus on the first two seasons of the women-led and womanist internet television series Maîtresse d’un homme marié (Mistress of a Married Man), directed by Kalista Sy and distributed online by Marodi TV, through both its YouTube channel and its mobile application. Maîtresse d’un homme marié is an intersectional and complex site of negotiation of feminism in contemporary Senegal, involving producers, actors, and fandom communities alike. The series reflects and creates a Senegalese world, contesting hegemonic global flows of cultural production and distribution. It reclaims these spaces first and foremost for Senegalese women in relation to stories about and for themselves, and becoming both a statement and promotion of the label “Made in Senegal.”