RE-VIEWING THE TROPICAL PARADISE: AFRO-CARIBBEAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS

Date
1998
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Northwestern University
Abstract
This dissertation presents a new conceptual framework, a "pan-African feminist" critical model, to examine how Euzhan Palcy of Martinique, Gloria Rolando and the late Sara Gómez of Cuba, and the Sistren Collective of Jamaica have negotiated - individually or collectively - the gender/race/class constraints within each of their societies in order to obtain access to the media of film and video. I examine the aesthetic, political, social and economic strategies utilized by these filmmakers to reinsert themselves into recorded versions of history, and/or to intervene in racist, (neo)colonial and/or patriarchal systems of oppression.
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cinema, film, black, Afro-Caribbean, African Diaspora, Caribbean cinema, Cuban cinema, Martinique, Euzhan Palcy, Sistren Collective, Gloria Rolando, Sara Gomez
Citation
Ebrahim, H. 1998. Re-Viewing the Tropical Paradise: Afro-Caribbean Women Filmmakers. PhD dissertation. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.