Black and white : cinema, politics and the arts in Zimbabwe / Agnieszka Piotrowska ; with a foreword by Diana Jeater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piotrowska, Agnieszka, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Zimbabwean--21st century.

Art, Zimbabwean.

Performing arts--Zimbabwe--History--21st century.

Performing arts.

Motion pictures--Zimbabwe--History--21st century.

Motion pictures.

Arts--Psychological aspects.

Arts.

Zimbabwe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

In Black and White Agnieszka Piotrowska presents a unique insight into the contemporary arts scene in Zimbabwe - an area that has received very limited coverage in research and the media. The book combines theory with literature, film, politics and culture and takes a psychosocial and psychoanalytic perspective to achieve a truly interdisciplinary analysis. Piotrowska features the work of contemporary artists and filmmakers there, including Rumbi Katedza and Joe Njagu, against the background of identity politics in Zimbabwe. She reflects on her creative 'practice research as a tool to analyse concepts of trauma and melancholia in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Piotrowska interrogates her position as a 'Stranger' there, questioning patriarchal notions of belonging and authority. Black and White also presents a different perspective on convergences in the work of Doris Lessing and iconic Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, and how it might be relevant to contemporary race relations. Black and White will be intriguing reading for film and post-colonial studies scholars, psychoanalysts and film makers, as well as researchers of cultural studies, psychosocial studies and applied philosophy. Book jacket.

Contents:

On touching and speaking in (Post) (de) Colonial Discourse

from Lessing to Marechera and Veit-Wild

Mourning and melancholia at the Harare International festival of the Arts

Lovers in Time

Practice research in the times of patriotic journalism in Zimbabwe

Contemporary cinema in Zimbabwe

part one: The radical "minor gesture" of Joe Njagu's Lobola

part two: Gender, class and tradition in Zimbabwe

Rumbi Katedza's Playing Warriors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-212) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781138817852

1138817856

9781138817869

1138817864

OCLC:

951415590

Publisher Number:

99995912806