AFRICAN FILM AND LITERATURE: ADAPTING VIOLENCE TO THE SCREEN

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Analyzing a range of South African and West African films
inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe
Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African
filmmaking - one in which filmmakers are using the embodied
audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical
and psychological violence. Against a detailed history of
the medium's savage introduction and exploitation by
colonial powers in two very different African contexts,
Dovey examines the complex ways in which African filmmakers
are preserving, mediating, and critiquing their own cultures
while seeking a united vision of the future. More than
merely representing socio-cultural realities in Africa,
these films engage with issues of colonialism and
postcolonialism, "updating" both the history and the
literature they adapt to address contemporary audiences in
Africa and elsewhere. Through this deliberate and radical
re-historicization of texts and realities, Dovey argues that
African filmmakers have developed a method of filmmaking
that is altogether distinct from European and American forms
of adaptation.

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