Echoes of Africa in To Sleep With Anger and Eve's Bayou.
From: African American Review
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Date: 3/22/2005
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Author: Ellison, Mary
There are many films made African American filmmakers that have more obvious African resonances than either To Sleep With Anger (1990), written and directed by Charles Burnett, or Eve's Bayou (1997), written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, but both films provide richly textured tapestries that show how African cultural threads have become densely interwoven into the very fabric of African American life. Lemmons actually uses the idea of tapestry as a metaphor for memory at the end of ...
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