Talking to the Dead: Diasporic African Cinema and the Wisdom of Bonds
Title:
Talking to the Dead
Subtitle: Diasporic African Cinema and the Wisdom of Bonds
Subject Classification:
Race and Racism, Arts, Anthropology
BIC Classification: JFSL, AB, JH
BISAC Classification:
SOC001000, LIT004040, PER004010
Binding:
Hardback, eBook
Publication date:
15 Jun 2025
ISBN (Hardback):
978-1-83711-343-9
ISBN (eBook):
978-1-83711-344-6
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Description
Talking to the Dead is an exhaustive spectrum of a diasporic cinematic corpus of prophetic tradition as a dispositive that features the work of underrepresented and underestimated filmmakers such as Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Ladj Ly, Mati Diop, Wanuri Kahiu, Rosine Mbakam, Ryan Coogler, Alice Diop, Nana Mensah, Gina Prince- Bythehood, Nikyatu Jusu, Raoul Peck, Miryam Charles, Ellie Foumbi, Tracy Heather Strain, Jordan Peele, Sheila S, Walker, Margaret Brown, Pierre Yves Borgeaud, Rachid Hami and Abderrhamane Sissako and the homology between the black experience and the law of the conservation of energy where nothing is lost but constantly transformed.
The black energy’s metaphor functions as the infinite possibility of black historical subjectivity that defines modernity as an accumulation of events that structure the connection of the past to the present and vice versa. In short, how these processes that shape the diasporic filmmakers’ artistic sovereignty as a critical praxis of creativity and re-subjectification mapping out a geography of the black diasporic memorial trajectories and cultural imagination to demonstrate the power to break out of disciplinary discourse of coloniality and violent policing of black lives.
Biography
Author(s): Dr Jean Olivier Tchouaffe is a scholar of black cinema and is affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
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