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(Dis)placing Cartographic Narratives: The Politicization of African Spaces in Literary and Filmic Representations of Africa.

机译:(取代)制图故事:非洲文学和电影作品中非洲空间的政治化。

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Traditional Western cartography has played a substantial role in the advent of colonialism, particularly in Africa. This dissertation examines the use of space in representations of Africa through African literature, African film, and American film. Instead of looking at traditional mapping, the articulation of space in this project is based upon the combination of experiential space, or space that is mapped through the narrative, and its link to larger geopolitical spaces. The aim of this project is to explore the experiential mappings of spaces that are generated within literary and filmic depictions of Africa. This exploration yields a comparison between the types of mappings generated through African and American aesthetic works.;This project focuses on African literature and film in the colonial, postindependent, and contemporary moments. African literature and film from these periods portray space in markedly similar ways, suggesting that those periods generate a collective response to colonialism and its aftermath that is implicit in its spatial mappings. In contrast, I divide American filmic representations of African spaces into two categories. The first group of films largely comprise the Jungle Film genre and emerge in the 1930's and continue through the 1950's, the discussion of which I frame around the classic King Kong (1933). The second group of films focuses on the Jungle Film's reemergence in the 1980's continuing through the 2000's. The shift in the post-2003 Jungle Films, including the remake of King Kong (2005) reveal films laden with a greater sense of spatial anxiety tied to the aftereffects of 9/11. Hence, I argue the representations in American filmic depictions of Africa communicate American anxieties displaced onto the space of Africa. The result is an increasing awareness of the ways in which cartographic narratives function actively to affect collective perceptions of spaces and their geopolitics.
机译:西方传统制图学在殖民主义的到来中发挥了重要作用,特别是在非洲。本文通过非洲文学,非洲电影和美国电影来考察空间在非洲表现形式中的运用。在此项目中,空间的表达不是基于传统的映射,而是基于经验性空间或通过叙述映射的空间及其与较大的地缘政治空间的链接的组合。该项目的目的是探索非洲文学和电影描写中产生的空间的体验性映射。这项探索对通过非洲和美国美学作品生成的地图类型进行了比较。;该项目着眼于殖民时期,独立后和当代时刻的非洲文学和电影。这些时期的非洲文学和电影以明显相似的方式描绘了空间,这表明这些时期对殖民主义及其后果产生了集体反应,这在其空间映射中是隐含的。相反,我将美国对非洲空间的电影表现形式分为两类。第一组电影主要包括丛林电影类型,并在1930年代出现,并一直持续到1950年代,我围绕经典金刚(1933)进行了讨论。第二组电影的重点是丛林电影在1980年代到2000年代的复兴。 2003年后丛林电影的转变,包括金刚(2005)的翻拍,揭示了充满9/11后效应的空间焦虑感更强的电影。因此,我认为在美国对非洲的电影描写中的表现将美国的焦虑传达给了流向非洲的焦虑。结果是人们越来越意识到制图叙事如何积极地影响人们对空间及其地缘政治的集体观念。

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  • 作者

    Potts, Daphne Ann.;

  • 作者单位

    University of California, Davis.;

  • 授予单位 University of California, Davis.;
  • 学科 Literature Comparative.;Cinema.;Literature African.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2012
  • 页码 342 p.
  • 总页数 342
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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