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1-2: Marginality and Fragility in African Cinemas
  • ISSN: 1754-9221
  • E-ISSN: 1754-923X

Abstract

Recently, fiction and documentaries films by francophone Africans, women in particular, have been replete with narratives of death and displacement: illegal migration by land and sea, death and violated bodies. In the corpus that I analyse below, four female filmmakers focus on debunking marginalization – economic, political or otherwise – and the downgrading of the other on the basis gender, ethnic affiliation or occupation.

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This study was supported by the:
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Award 435-2018-1155)
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Keyword(s): grievability; numbed agencies; precarity; relationality; stigmatization
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