Not enough of the past: feminist revisions of slavery in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred.(Critical Essay)

From: MELUS | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Mitchell, Angelyn | Copyright information

Haile Gerima's 1993 film Sankofa confronts the legacies of slavery, highlighting the ways the past constructs the present, by cinematically transporting its viewers to that era of human bondage. Indeed, the word sankofa is an Akan word that means "one must return to the past in order to move forward." The film opens with the protagonist, a contemporary African American fashion model named Mona, on a high fashion shoot at Ghana's Cape Coast Castle, formerly a holding site for kidnap...

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