Queer Worldmaking in Wanuri Kahiu's FilmRafiki
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2173256 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Lyn Johnstone (0009-0000-8603-9288, University of London) |
| Ano | 2021 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 39-50 |
| Data de publicação | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of African Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1369-6815 • E-ISSN: 1469-9346 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13696815.2020.1816931 |
| OpenAlex | W3088805920 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 8 |
| Referências citadas | 14 |
This article argues that Wanuri Kahiu's film Rafiki is an exemplar of worldmaking in queer African cinema. By analysing key scenes from the film, I uncover the ways in which Rafiki offers queer Kenyans a visual affirmation of a queer world which exists counter to the world of hegemonic heteronormativity in Kenya. Key contributors to Rafiki's worldmaking potential, I argue, are the director's use of tropes of futurity, horizon, and queer utopic space in the film's plot and narrative. Extending the idea of queer utopic space to the viewing experience of audiences, I show how the practice of queer worldmaking extended beyond the screen to the space inside the cinema in the seven days that the film's ban was relaxed and Rafiki was screened in Kenya
Aesthetics · Art · Hegemony · Heteronormativity · Key (lock · Linguistics · Literature · Movie theater · Narrative · Plot (graphics · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Computer Science · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Obras citantes distintas | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 0,57 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 8 |