Identity in Postmillennial German Films on Africa:
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Main Author: Tsikhungu, Shikuku Emmanuel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt 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
This book is a literary and cultural investigation of the different levels of identity as revealed in German films on and about Africa. Taking sexual, spatial, linguistic and body identities as its core concern, the book elucidates how the contemporary German film narratives on Africa binarize bordeline cultural and geographical identities. While this binarism assigns the metropolitan status to the German, the African is relegated to the margins in the human socio-geocultural aspects. The book contradicts this kind of binary narration as it argues that trans-border identities are fraught with
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ISBN:3653042836
9783653042832

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