Give Me Back My Black Dolls: Damas’ Africa and Its Museification, From Poetry to Moving Pictures
This essay links Léon-Gontran Damas’ poetry to Matthias De Groof’s experimental film, Rendez-les moi, which is based on Damas’ poem “Limbé.” By offering an interpretation of “Limbé” in relation to the museification of African artifacts, the film frames the re-evaluation of Damas as artistic interven...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Alberta
2015-11-01
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| Series: | Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies |
| Online Access: | http://imaginations.csj.ualberta.ca/?p=7901 |