African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction

by Daniela Ricci

African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction analyzes the aesthetic strategies adopted by contemporary African diasporic filmmakers to express the reconstruction of identity. Having left the continent, these filmmakers see Africa as a site of representation and cultural circulation. The diasporic experience displaces the center and forges new syncretic identities. Through migratory movement, people become foreigners, Others--and in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611863643
• ISBN13: 9781611863642
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"