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African Diasporic Cinema

Aesthetics of Reconstruction

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction analyzes the aesthetic strategies adopted by contemporary African diasporic filmmakers to express the reconstruction of identity. Having left the continent, these filmmakers see Africa as a site of representation and cultural circulation. The diasporic experience displaces the center and forges new syncretic identities. Through migratory movement, people become foreigners, Others—and in this instance, black. The African diasporic condition in the Western world is characterized by the intersection of various factors: being African and bearing the historical memory of the continent; belonging to a black minority in majority-white societies; and finally, having historically been the object of negative, stereotyped representation. As a result, quests for the self and self-reconstruction are frequent themes in the films of the African diaspora, and yet the filmmakers refuse to remain trapped in the confines of an assigned, rigid identity. Reflecting these complex circumstances, this book analyzes the contemporary diaspora through the prism of cultural hybridization and the processes of recomposing fragmented identities, out of which new identities emerge.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-08-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAfrican Humanities and the Arts
Antal sidor326
FörlagMichigan State University Press
ISBN9781611863642
ÖversättareMelissa Thackway

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DANIELA RICCI teaches film studies at of Paris Nanterre University and the University of Paris 8 in France. She is part of the research laboratory Histoire des Arts et des Représentations and is a member of the African Federation of Film Critics, the African Studies Association, and the African Literature Association.MELISSA THACKWAY is an independent researcher and translator. She lectures in African cinema at Sciences Po and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris.

Contents Foreword, by Alexie Tcheuyap Acknowledgments Introduction: Contemporary African Diasporic Films Part One. Identities, Representations, and Cinematographic Discourses Chapter 1. The Question of Identity Chapter 2. Cinematographic Representations: Representations and Their Consequences Chapter 3. African Cinema: New Perspectives Part Two. Film Analyses Chapter 4. Introduction to the Socio-Aesthetic Analysis of African Diasporic Film Chapter 5. To Each Their Own Truth: Rage, by Newton I. Aduaka Chapter 6. Between Fiction and Experience: Juju Factory, by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda Chapter 7. In-Between Places: Notre étrangère, by Sarah Bouyain Chapter 8. Interior/Exterior Worlds: L’Afrance, by Alain Gomis Chapter 9. Worlds in Construction and the Intellectual’s Return: Teza, by Haile Gerima In Guise of a Conclusion Notes Bibliography Films Cited Index

“Daniela Ricci brilliantly incorporates sociopolitical, psychological, and philosophical tools in her study of innovative aesthetics created by contemporary filmmakers of African descent. Ricci’s well documented book, beautifully translated by Melissa Thackway, highlights personal journeys and diverse representations of global issues. This is a must-read for researchers in film, African studies, and diaspora studies, as well as other areas of the humanities and social sciences.”—FRANÇOISE PFAFF, Professor Emerita, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Howard University