Boulou Ebanda de B béri 99992006, BAYREUTH

A labyrinth horizontal identity practices transgéographiques

"This book is an excellent review of the role of cinema as a vehicle for expressions of black identity. It shows that since its inception, cinema has played an important role in generating, on the one hand, on the significance of the imaginary on the Blacks, and, on the other hand, practices for meaningful and imaginative harmonized with the expressions of identity black. In fact, the mapping of alternate phrases of the darkness in the cinema of Dr. Boulou Ebanda de B béritakes the reader into a labyrinth of horizontal out of the ordinary, with one of the most important issues of the centuries past and present : the fabrication and performances of identity. His book unpacks truly the categories of racial identity, cultural and political in order to discern the practices reconstructed from the darkness, linking the experience of socio-history of black peoples in their expressions transgéographiques of the africanicité in the film. He concludes that paradigms specific to the communication, such as "emotions" and " resilience ", determine the manner in which some Blacks articulate their identity practices through the cinema.

The examination of these paradigms as the discursive practices of "diversion" or "marronnage" allows us to understand the more complex effect of the african-ness or darkness as a practice signifying necessary cultural experiences and historic Black.