LITTLE SENEGAL (DZ/FR/DE 2001. R: Rachid Bouchareb)

Lecture & Film „Black Atlantic Cinema“

Lecture: Boukary Sawadogo (New York)

Lecture: Blackness: Politics and Affect of Kinship in Little Senegal
Little Senegal (2001) by the Algerian French director Rachid Bouchareb brings to the fore Africa’s relation to Black America through intimacy, affect, and a space with fraught history to race and racism. While African Americans face the challenge of double consciousness, Africans who experience the American notion of race for the first time must contend with triple consciousness as Black, African, and immigrant.
Dr. Boukary Sawadogo is Associate Professor of cinema studies and Black Studies in the Department of Media and Communication Arts at the City College of New York – City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of five books and the founding director of the Harlem African Animation Festival.

Film: LITTLE SENEGAL (DZ/FR/DE 2001. R: Rachid Bouchareb)
Nach 30 Jahren Arbeit für das Museum der Geschichte der Sklaverei auf der Insel Gorée vor Dakar begibt sich der Senegalese Alloun in Rachid Boucharebs LITTLE SENEGAL nach New York, um seine amerikanischen Verwandten zu besuchen, deren Ahn:innen als Sklav:innen verschleppt wurden. „While African Americans face the challenge of double consciousness, Africans who experience the American notion of race for the first time must contend with triple consciousness as Black, African, and immigrant. Who is Black in America? How are narrative and duality in representations deployed to portray complex interpersonal relations among Black people in America?“ (Boukary Sawadogo)

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