Talking to the Dead : Diasporic African Cinema and the Wisdom of Bonds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tchouaffe, Jean-Olivier.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2025.

Summary:

Talking to the Dead is an exhaustive spectrum of a diasporic cinematic corpus of prophetic tradition as a dispositive that features the work of underrepresented and underestimated filmmakers such as Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Ladj Ly, Mati Diop, Wanuri Kahiu, Rosine Mbakam, Ryan Coogler, Alice Diop, Nana Mensah, Gina Prince- Bythehood, Nikyatu Jusu, Raoul Peck, Miryam Charles, Ellie Foumbi, Tracy Heather Strain, Jordan Peele, Sheila S, Walker, Margaret Brown, Pierre Yves Borgeaud, Rachid Hami and Abderrhamane Sissako and the homology between the black experience and the law of the conservation of energy where nothing is lost but constantly transformed. The black energy's metaphor functions as the infinite possibility of black historical subjectivity that defines modernity as an accumulation of events that structure the connection of the past to the present and vice versa. In short, how these processes that shape the diasporic filmmakers' artistic sovereignty as a critical praxis of creativity and re-subjectification mapping out a geography of the black diasporic memorial trajectories and cultural imagination to demonstrate the power to break out of disciplinary discourse of coloniality and violent policing of black lives.

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Other Format:

Print version: Tchouaffe, Jean-Olivier Talking to the Dead

ISBN:

9781837113446