Analysis of grief and displacement in documentary films, highlighting marginalization based on gender and ethnicity.
Recently, fiction and documentaries films by francophone Africans, women in particular, have been replete with narratives of death and displacement: illegal migration by land and sea, death and violated bodies. In the corpus that I analyse below, four female filmmakers focus on debunking marginalization – economic, political or otherwise – and the downgrading of the other on the basis gender, ethnic affiliation or occupation.
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