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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792025803321

Autore

Petty Sheila

Titolo

Contact zones [[electronic resource] ] : memory, origin, and discourses in Black diasporic cinema / / Sheila J. Petty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8143-3990-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Disciplina

791.43652996

Soggetti

Black people in motion pictures

African Americans in motion pictures

Slavery in motion pictures

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. [269]-285) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover ""; ""Half-title ""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments                      ""; ""Introduction                   ""; ""1. Africa and the Middle Passage: Recoupment of Origin in Sankofa                                                                        ""; ""2. Collision of Cultures: Occulted Caribbean Histories in Sugar Cane Alley                                                                                 ""

""3. Reclaiming Africa: Black Womenâ€?s Discourses in Daughters of the Dust                                                                              """"4. Disjunction from Self: The Politics of Arrival in Soleil O                                                                    ""; ""5. Arrested Memory: The Problematics of Return in Testament                                                                  ""; ""6. Slippage and Mutable Histories in Deluge                                                  ""

""7. Transnational Gazes in Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask                                                                     """"8. Locality, Memory, and Zombification in The Man by the Shore                                                                     ""; ""9. Mapping New Boundaries: Discourses of Blackness in Rude                                                                 ""; ""Notes            ""; ""Bibliography                   ""; ""Index            ""; ""Back_Cover ""