Geographies of the Black African Masculine in Tsotsi and The Wooden Camera
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 15415675 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Jordache Abner Ellapen (0000-0003-1060-5428, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2018 |
| Volumen | 9 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 235-235 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Black Camera (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1536-3155 • E-ISSN: 1947-4237 |
| Editorial | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/blackcamera.9.2.16 |
| OpenAlex | W2803910002 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 11 |
This article examines the various representations of black masculinities in the films Tsotsi (dir. Gavin Hood, 2005) and The Wooden Camera (dir. Ntshavheni wa Luruli, 2003) in order to complicate the manner in which an authentic black African masculinity has become conflated with the tsotsi (gangster) figure in South African cinema. This article begins with the examination of two film posters used to promote Tsosti and The Wooden Camera in France. Both posters rely on stereotypes of the black African masculine as dangerous, deviant, and violent. By examining the various representations of black masculinities in these films, and by situating these representations within the sociohistorical and political contexts, this article complicates the overdetermined representation of the tsotsi figure that reinforces black masculinity as pathological on global screens. This article also examines the articulation of black masculinity within the township space, which the author theorizes as an in-between space. The article concludes with a call to consider the politics of race and representation, especially the implications of racializing Africanness and who can claim the rights to representation, particularly the representation of the black African body, after 1994
Articulation (sociology · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Law · South African History and Culture
Black Skin, White Masks
Eurocentrism and critical Latin American thought
Reframing the black subject ideology and fantasy in contemporary South African representation
Men, Masculinity, and the Media
Photography on the Color Line
Of boys and men
The Suffering Body of the City
Writing the World from an African Metropolis
Globalization and Race
The cinematic township
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,25 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 1 |