Creolization on screen
Guy Deslauriers’s The Middle Passage as Afro-Diasporic Discourse [ Le passage du milieu ]
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sophie Saint-Just (Williams College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 287-303 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African and Black Diaspora An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-8631 • E-ISSN: 1752-864X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17528631.2019.1611320 |
| OpenAlex | W2955630768 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Le passage du milieu (France, 1999) or The Middle-Passage (US version, 2001) proposes in theoretical and conceptual cinematic language a visual and aural translation of the Creolization process on screen. Drawing on literary and theoretical imageries of the middle passage, Filmmaker Guy Deslauriers and his screenwriters replace plot-driven Western literary and visual constructions of la traite with an abstract and disorienting rumination on the slave trade to situate the film in a tradition of African diasporic discourses and to posit the ship as the first island and the original site of proto-creolization
Art · Art history · Creolization · Film director · Humanities · Literature · Middle Passage · Movie theater · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · North African History and Literature
Islands and exiles
The black Atlantic
Humus
Le point de vue des captifs
Voyage through death/to life upon these shores”
Founding-Ancestors and Intertextuality in Francophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism
Les statues meurent aussi
Between Memory and History
Revisioning History. Film and the Construction of a New Past
The Pitfalls of Picturing Atlantic Slavery
Shadowboxing in the Mangrove
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |