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African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction
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.
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African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction
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.
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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611863642
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication date: 08/01/2020
Series: African Humanities and the Arts
Edition description: 1
Pages: 326
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword Alexie Tcheuyap ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Contemporary African Diasporic Films xv

Part 1 Identities, Representations, and Cinematographic Discourses

Chapter 1 The Question of Identity 3

Chapter 2 Cinematographic Representations: Representations and Their Consequences 15

Chapter 3 African Cinema: New Perspectives 25

Part 2 Film Analyses

Chapter 4 Introduction to the Socio-Aesthetic Analysis of African Diasporic Film 53

Chapter 5 To Each Their Own Truth: Rage Newton I. Aduaka 57

Chapter 6 Between Fiction and Experience: Juju Factory Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda 79

Chapter 7 In-Between Places: Notre étrangère Sarah Bouyain 105

Chapter 8 Interior/Exterior Worlds: L'Afrance Alain Gomis 129

Chapter 9 Worlds in Construction and the Intellectual's Return: Teza Haile Gerima 157

In Guise of a Conclusion 195

Notes 211

Bibliography 251

Films Cited 277

Index 287

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