Old slavery seen through modern eyes: Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Haile Gerima’s Sankofa
Time travel has been at times employed by writers and filmmakers alike as a means for addressing sociopolitical discourses. This is the case of the novel Kindred (1979) by Octavia E. Butler, and the film Sankofa (1993) by Haile Gerima. In both works, the topic of spatio-temporal migration is dealt w...
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Università degli Studi di Milano
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Altre Modernità |
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/11322 |