Suzanne Crosta
Biographic Data
| ID | 1168077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Crosta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Crosta |
| SIGNATURE | CROSTA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | ISNI: 0000000419368227 McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7805-0118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Marginality and Fragility in African Cinemas’
For over a half century, filmmakers on the African continent and in the diaspora have contended with the legacies of colonial policies and their marginalizing effects on the people, spaces and cultures of the continent. Using film, they have repeatedly argued that fragilization and marginalization of Africans provided the mainstay of colonial conquest and domination. Whether the French civilizing mission or the British Indirect rule, the aim was …
Ecological fragility and contemporary African documentaries
This article surveys African documentary films in order to identify major themes, trends and key concepts in the treatment and representation of nature. In addition to highlighting the importance of postcolonial theories and ecocriticism, this research also explores the similarities and useful interconnections between disciplines, critical reflection and creativity underpinning African documentaries. I also argue that African filmmakers are more …
Des désastres écologiques au rêve panafricain d’une Grande Muraille verte
Since the late twentieth century, African filmmakers have devoted themselves with tireless dedication and activism to environmental challenges that continue to alarm, even globally. Their lands are endangered, and their communities are severely affected in their living environment. There are major challenges, ever more urgent, about their ecosystems, but also about the neighbouring geographies and finally about the planet in general. Using a body…
Se fier en toute liberté au réel
This introduction to this interview presents Chloé Aïcha Boro, a Burkinabé journalist, writer, filmmaker and screenwriter. Although she started her career as a journalist for La voix du Sahel and Le Marabout in her native Burkina Faso, her love of literature inspired her to write novels and move on to screen writing and directing films. The introduction explores Le Loup d’or de Balolé . The interview focuses on her personal life and the making of…
Les Écosystèmes à l’écran
History and cultural identity in Haitian literature
As the title of this article may allusively suggest, the history of Haitian literature is tied to the island's distinctive political status as the first Caribbean nation to gain its freedom from French colonial rule. According to historical accounts, it took more than thirteen years of militant resistance and tactical warfare to defeat Napoleon's expeditionary force and proclaim its national independence on 1 January 1804. Names of militant resis…
Gardiens et voleurs
Cette étude examine la rhétorique de la critique africaine anglophone des années 1970 et 1980, notamment les figures (gardiens, voleurs, chasseurs, proies, etc.) qu’elle a créées, transformées ou projetées pour identifier la culture et la race des actants, leur engagement politique et/ou leur conscience sociale et leurs prises de positions dans certains débats. À partir d’une analyse du discours critique, on tente ici de mettre en lumière la prés…
Édouard Glissant
The present article examines the theoretical and literary writings of Édouard Glissant in light of key concepts and features that have been central to his thoughts on cultural diversity. To address these, this study focuses on the notions of trace, opacity and the complexity of collective memory. It points to his experimentation with literary genres, his strategic use of marronnage, his playful but conscious manipulation of narrative conventions,…
Narrative and Discursive Strategies in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove
Des désastres écologiques au rêve panafricain d’une Grande Muraille verte
Since the late twentieth century, African filmmakers have devoted themselves with tireless dedication and activism to environmental challenges that continue to alarm, even globally. Their lands are endangered, and their communities are severely affected in their living environment. There are major challenges, ever more urgent, about their ecosystems, but also about the neighbouring geographies and finally about the planet in general. Using a body…
Se fier en toute liberté au réel
This introduction to this interview presents Chloé Aïcha Boro, a Burkinabé journalist, writer, filmmaker and screenwriter. Although she started her career as a journalist for La voix du Sahel and Le Marabout in her native Burkina Faso, her love of literature inspired her to write novels and move on to screen writing and directing films. The introduction explores Le Loup d’or de Balolé . The interview focuses on her personal life and the making of…
Les Écosystèmes à l’écran
History and cultural identity in Haitian literature
As the title of this article may allusively suggest, the history of Haitian literature is tied to the island's distinctive political status as the first Caribbean nation to gain its freedom from French colonial rule. According to historical accounts, it took more than thirteen years of militant resistance and tactical warfare to defeat Napoleon's expeditionary force and proclaim its national independence on 1 January 1804. Names of militant resis…
Narrative and Discursive Strategies in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove
Narrative and Discursive Strategies in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove
Gardiens et voleurs
Cette étude examine la rhétorique de la critique africaine anglophone des années 1970 et 1980, notamment les figures (gardiens, voleurs, chasseurs, proies, etc.) qu’elle a créées, transformées ou projetées pour identifier la culture et la race des actants, leur engagement politique et/ou leur conscience sociale et leurs prises de positions dans certains débats. À partir d’une analyse du discours critique, on tente ici de mettre en lumière la prés…
Édouard Glissant
The present article examines the theoretical and literary writings of Édouard Glissant in light of key concepts and features that have been central to his thoughts on cultural diversity. To address these, this study focuses on the notions of trace, opacity and the complexity of collective memory. It points to his experimentation with literary genres, his strategic use of marronnage, his playful but conscious manipulation of narrative conventions,…
History and cultural identity in Haitian literature
As the title of this article may allusively suggest, the history of Haitian literature is tied to the island's distinctive political status as the first Caribbean nation to gain its freedom from French colonial rule. According to historical accounts, it took more than thirteen years of militant resistance and tactical warfare to defeat Napoleon's expeditionary force and proclaim its national independence on 1 January 1804. Names of militant resis…
Des désastres écologiques au rêve panafricain d’une Grande Muraille verte
Since the late twentieth century, African filmmakers have devoted themselves with tireless dedication and activism to environmental challenges that continue to alarm, even globally. Their lands are endangered, and their communities are severely affected in their living environment. There are major challenges, ever more urgent, about their ecosystems, but also about the neighbouring geographies and finally about the planet in general. Using a body…
Se fier en toute liberté au réel
This introduction to this interview presents Chloé Aïcha Boro, a Burkinabé journalist, writer, filmmaker and screenwriter. Although she started her career as a journalist for La voix du Sahel and Le Marabout in her native Burkina Faso, her love of literature inspired her to write novels and move on to screen writing and directing films. The introduction explores Le Loup d’or de Balolé . The interview focuses on her personal life and the making of…
Les Écosystèmes à l’écran
‘Marginality and Fragility in African Cinemas’
For over a half century, filmmakers on the African continent and in the diaspora have contended with the legacies of colonial policies and their marginalizing effects on the people, spaces and cultures of the continent. Using film, they have repeatedly argued that fragilization and marginalization of Africans provided the mainstay of colonial conquest and domination. Whether the French civilizing mission or the British Indirect rule, the aim was …
Ecological fragility and contemporary African documentaries
This article surveys African documentary films in order to identify major themes, trends and key concepts in the treatment and representation of nature. In addition to highlighting the importance of postcolonial theories and ecocriticism, this research also explores the similarities and useful interconnections between disciplines, critical reflection and creativity underpinning African documentaries. I also argue that African filmmakers are more …
African history and culture studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · History (3 works)