Title: Contact zones : memory, origin, and discourses in Black diasporic cinema /
Authors: Petty, Sheila
Publisher: Wayne State University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Black people in motion pictures; African Americans in motion pictures; Slavery in motion pictures
Contents: Africa and the middle passage: recoupment of origin in Sankofa -- Collision of cultures: occulted Caribbean histories in Sugar Cane Alley -- Reclaiming Africa: Black women's discourses in Daughters of the Dust -- Disjunction from self: the politics of arrival in Soleil O -- Arrested memory: the problematics of return in testament -- Slippage and mutable histories in Deluge -- Transnational gazes in Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask -- Locality, memory, and zombification in The Man by the Shore -- Mapping new boundaries: discourses of blackness in Rude.