Contact Zones: Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Africa and the Middle Passage: Recoupment of Origin in Sankofa 16 2. Collision of Cultures: Occulted Caribbean Histories in Sugar Cane Alley 52 3. Reclaiming Africa: Black Women’s Discourses in Daughters of the Dust 80 4. Disjunction from Self: The Politics of Arrival in Soleil O 104 5. Arrested Memory: The Problematics of Return in Testament 127 6. Slippage and Mutable Histories in Deluge 154 7. Transnational Gazes in Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask 176 8. Locality, Memory, and Zombification in The Man by the Shore 196 9. Mapping New Boundaries: Discourses of Blackness in Rude 224 Notes 259 Bibliography 269 Index 287 contents ...