This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in
theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates
in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is
presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which
to address questions of postcolonial historiography, geography,
subjectivity, and epistemology.
Current circumstances of migration and immigration,
militarization, economic exploitation, racial and religious
conflict, enactments of citizenship, and cultural
self-representation have deep roots in
colonial/postcolonial/neocolonial histories. Contributors deeply
engage the tense asymmetries bequeathed to the contemporary world
by the multiple, diverse, and overlapping histories of European,
Soviet, U.S., and multi-national imperial ventures. With
interdisciplinary expertise, they discover and explore the
conceptual temporalities and spatialities of postcoloniality, with
an emphasis on the politics of form, the postcolonial aesthetics
through which filmmakers challenge themselves and their viewers to
move beyond national and imperial imaginaries.
Contributors include: Jude G. Akudinobi, Kanika Batra, Ruth
Ben-Ghiat, Shohini Chaudhuri, Julie F. Codell, Sabine Doran, Hamish
Ford, Claudia Hoffmann, Anik Imre, Priya Jaikumar, Mariam B. Lam,
Paulo de Medeiros, Sandra Ponzanesi, Richard Rice, Mireille Rosello
and Marguerite Waller.
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