Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) : la mémoire de l’esclavage dans la conscience diasporique by Delphine Letort

“…Gerima pays little attention to historical details as he retraces the time journey of a young African-American woman, Mona, into the past of slavery during a visit of Cape Coast Castle. Between present-day Ghana and the American plantation of the past, the filmmaker overcomes the time and space gap to develop diasporic consciousness. …”
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