Cannibal writes : eating others in Caribbean and Indian Ocean women's writing / / Njeri Githire

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463875003321
• Autore: Githire Njeri
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Urbana, Illinois : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-252-09674-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.8928709729
• Soggetti: Caribbean literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Cannibalism in literature; Women and literature - Caribbean Area; Assimilation (Sociology) in literature; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Electronic books.; Indian Ocean Region In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cannibal Love: Ideologies of Power, Gender, and the Erotics of Eating -- Immigration, Assimilation, and Conflict: A Dialectics of Cannibalism and Anthropemy -- Dis(h)coursing Hunger: In the Throes of Voracious Capitalist Excesses -- Edible Ecriture: Feuding Words, Fighting Foods.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Within the field of postcolonial studies, colonial and imperial domination have frequently been connected to metaphors of eating and consumption. At the extreme, cannibalism works as a colonialist trope, and becomes an overarching framework for addressing issues of self, difference, and otherness. In Cannibal Writes, Njeri Githire concentrates on the gendered and sexualized dimensions of these metaphors of consumption, specifically in works by Caribbean and Indian Ocean women writers in Haiti, Jamaica, and Guadeloupe. Through wide ranging theoretical exploration and insightful readings of texts in both English and French, this project focuses on the visceral appeal of ; alimentary metaphors and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, political economy, and migration. Githire also explores some of the ways in which cannibalism has surfaced in some contemporary migration debates. The project is ambitiously comparative, including a wide range of well known and lesser known writers in both Caribbean and Indian Ocean contexts--geographic and cultural spaces that have much in common but which are rarely brought together in the same study"--; "Postcolonial and diaspora studies scholars and critics have paid increasing attention to the use of metaphors of food, eating, digestion, and various affiliated actions such as loss of appetite, indigestion, and regurgitation. As such stylistic devices proliferated in the works of non-Western women writers, scholars connected metaphors of eating and consumption to colonial and imperial domination. In Cannibal Writes, Njeri Githire concentrates on the gendered and sexualized dimensions of these visceral metaphors of consumption in works by women writers from Haiti, Jamaica, Mauritius, and elsewhere. Employing theoretical analysis and insightful readings of English- and French-language texts, she explores the prominence of alimentary-related tropes and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, global geopolitics and economic dynamics, and migration. As she shows, the use of cannibalism in particular as a central motif opens up privileged modes for mediating historical and sociopolitical issues. Ambitiously comparative, Cannibal Writes ranges across the works of well-known and lesser known writers to tie together two geographic and cultural spaces that have much in common but are seldom studied in parallel"--

Decolonizing the lens of power [[electronic resource] ] : Indigenous films in North America / / Kerstin Knopf

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777962803321
• Autore: Knopf Kerstin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-59450-8; 9786612594502; 90-420-2883-1; 1-4416-1332-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (563 p.)
• Collana: Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; ; 100
• Disciplina: 791.4308997; 808.823
• Soggetti: Indian motion pictures - North America; Ethnographic films - North America; Indians in the motion picture industry - North America; Indians in motion pictures; Indian mass media - North America; Indigenous peoples and mass media - North America
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-386) and index.; Includes filmography (p. 380-384).
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- The Foucauldian Lens of Power Decolonized -- A Postcolonial Approach to Indigenous Filmmaking in North America -- Oral Tradition as Reflected in Film -- Short Films -- Dramatic Films -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- Internet Sources -- Appendix -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first book that comprehensively examines Indigenous filmmaking in North America, as it analyzes in detail a variety of representative films by Canadian and US-American Indigenous filmmakers: two films that contextualize the oral tradition, three short films, and four dramatic films. The book explores how members of colonized groups use the medium of film as a means for cultural and ; political expression and thus enter the dominant colonial film discourse and create an answering discourse. The theoretical framework is developed as an interdisciplinary approach, combining postcolonialism, Indigenous studies, and film studies. As Indigenous people are gradually taking control over the imagemaking process in the area of film and video, they cease being studied and described objects and become subjects who create self-controlled images of Indigenous cultures. The book explores the translatability of Indigenous oral tradition into film, touching upon the changes the cultural knowledge is subject to in this process, including statements of Indigenous filmmakers on this issue. It also asks whether or not there is a definite Indigenous film practice and whether filmmakers tend to dissociate their work from dominant classical filmmaking, adapt to it, or create new film forms and styles through converging classical film conventions and their conscious violation. This approach presupposes that Indigenous filmmakers are constantly in some state of reaction to Western ethnographic filmmaking and to classical narrative filmmaking and its epitome, the Hollywood narrative cinema. The films analyzed are The Road Allowance People by Maria Campbell, Itam Hakim, Hopiit by Victor Masayesva, Talker by Lloyd Martell, Tenacity and Smoke Signals by Chris Eyre, Overweight With Crooked Teeth and Honey Moccasin by Shelley Niro, Big Bear by Gil Cardinal, and Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner by Zacharias Kunuk.