Mirroring Domestic Crises of Black Women's In/Visibility in Ousmane Sembène's La noire de … and Henriette Akofa's Une esclave moderne

IF 0.3 3区文学 0 LITERATURE, AFRICAN, AUSTRALIAN, CANADIAN

Research in African Literatures Pub Date : 2021-07-19 DOI:10.2979/reseafrilite.51.4.07

Maria-Gratias Sinon

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ABSTRACT:This article explores the subjectivity of two Francophone black African women's in/visibility. Through Ousmane Sembène's film La noire de … and Henriette Akofa's novel Une esclave moderne, I pivot the ways the two works mirror the protagonists' isolating experience emblematized by the in/visibility that many migratory black women live across transnational spaces on both sides of the Atlantic, a crisis that takes its most palpable and sometimes deadly turn through a socially and ethically oppressive in/visibility. Inspired in part by the work of Renée Larrier (2000) and Françoise Lionnet (1995) in postcolonial Francophone contexts and theoretical works in Anglophone spaces like Samantha Pinto's Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic (2013). I examine how laboring black women's oppression born of transnational migration informs the states and spaces of in/visibility. Ultimately, this article interweaves, in the transnational context across Francophone and sometimes Anglophone spaces, the fictional accounts of perpetual servitude of black women.

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在奥斯曼·塞姆贝的《黑色》和亨丽埃特·阿科法的《Une esclave modern》中反映黑人女性的家庭危机

摘要：本文探讨了两位法语非洲黑人女性的主体性。通过奥斯曼·塞姆贝的电影《黑色…》和亨丽埃特·阿科法的小说《Une esclave modern》，我转向了这两部作品反映主人公孤立经历的方式，这些经历象征着许多移民黑人女性生活在大西洋两岸的跨国空间，这场危机通过社会和道德上的压迫/可见性发生了最明显、有时甚至致命的转变。部分灵感来自Renée Larrier（2000年）和Françoise Lionet（1995年）在后殖民法语背景下的作品，以及萨曼莎·平托（Samantha Pinto）的《困难的散居者：黑大西洋的跨国女权主义美学》（2013年）等英语空间的理论作品。我研究了跨国移民所产生的劳动黑人女性的压迫是如何影响国家和空间的。最终，这篇文章在法语国家和有时英语国家的跨国背景下，交织了对黑人女性永久奴役的虚构描述。

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Research in African Literatures LITERATURE, AFRICAN, AUSTRALIAN, CANADIAN-

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期刊介绍： Founded in 1970, Research in African Literatures is the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide and provides a forum in English for research on the oral and written literatures of Africa, as well as information on African publishing, announcements of importance to Africanists, and notes and queries of literary interest. Reviews of current scholarly books are included in every issue, often presented as review essays, and a forum offers readers the opportunity to respond to issues raised in articles and book reviews.