The Money Order: False Treasure or True Benefice
- Author / Editor
- Harrow, Kenneth.
The Money Order: False Treasure or True Benefice
- Published
- Kofi Anyidoho, Abioseh M. Porter, Daniel Racine, and Janice Spleth, eds. Interdisciplinary Dimensions of African Literature (Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1985), pp. 75-87.
- Description
- Harrow explores social criticism in Sembene Ousmane's novella "Le Mandat" (film version "Mandabi") with references to thematic similarities in Chaucer's PardT. Both Ousmane and Chaucer portray the effects of unexpected treasure on its beneficiaries and reveal the falsity of that wealth, but Chaucer writes with intentions of moral reform, while Ousmane advocates social reform.
- Contributor
- Anyidoho, Kofi,
- Porter, Abioseh M.,
- Racine, Daniel,
- Spleth, Janice,ed.
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- Alternative Title
- Interdisciplinary Dimensions of African Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations