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Author Petty, Sheila.

Title Contact zones : memory, origin, and discourses in Black diasporic cinema / Sheila J. Petty
Published Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary approaches to film and television series
Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
Contents 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 Women'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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index
Subject Black people in motion pictures
African Americans in motion pictures.
Slavery in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
African Americans in motion pictures
Black people in motion pictures
Slavery in motion pictures
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007035463
ISBN 9780814339909
0814339905