Identity in Postmillennial German Films on Africa - Tsikhungu, Shikuku Emmanuel (Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014)
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Cover; Acknowledgement; Table of Content; Notes on Translations, References and Abbreviations; Primary texts and their Production notes.; 1. Nowhere in Africa (2001); 1. Die Winterreisse (2007); 2. Eine Liebe in Afrika (2003); 3. Kein Himmel über Afrika (2004); 4. Mogadischu (2008); 5. Momella; eine Farm in Afrika (2007); 6. Der weiße Afrikaner (2004); 7. The white Masai (2005); 1.0 Contexts and Locations; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Theoretical Considerations; 1.3 Methodological Considerations; Notes; 2.0 Narrative and Cinematic Modes of Representation; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Narratives
2.3 Narrative Modes2.3.1 Narrative Perspective; 2.3.2 Revalorization of History; 2.4 Visual Modes and Cinematography; 2.4.1 The Cinematography of Inferiorization; 2.4.2 Juxtaposition and Binarism; 2.4.3 Visual Mediations of African Cultural Icons; 2.5 Alternatives to the Eurocentric Modes; Notes; 3.0 Language, Identity and Representation; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Language Debates and the Representation of Africa; 3.3 Framing the German Language; 3.4 Deployment of African Indigenous Languages; 3.5 Disrupting Linguistic Zones; Notes; 4.0 Sexual Identity and the Representation of Sexuality
4.1 Introduction4.2 The Sexualization of Black Africa in Euro- consciousness; 4.3 Configuring African Male Sexuality; 4.4 Representation of the Sexuality of the African Woman; Notes; 5.0 Identity and Representation of Bodies at the Interstice; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The European Character; 5.3 Filming the Male Black Body; 5.4 Filming the Female Black Body; Notes; 6.0 Geopoetics: Identity and Representation of Space; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Film, Space and Points of View; 6.3 Space in German Public Consciousness; 19th Century to Beyond Colonialism; 6.4 Staging Germany
6.5 Spectres of the Tropics Imagining "Location Africa"; Notes; 7.0 Conclusions; 7.1 Eurocentric Inflections on Africa; 7.2 Counter Discourses and Hybridity; 7.3 Visions of the Future; Notes; 8.0 References; 8.1 Filmography; 8.1.1 Primary Films/texts; 8.1.2 Secondary Filmography; 8.2 Bibliography; 8.3 Internet Sources