DANIELA RICCI teaches film studies at of Paris Nanterre University and the University of Paris 8 in France. She is part of the research laboratory Histoire des Arts et des Représentations and is a member of the African Federation of Film Critics, the African Studies Association, and the African Literature Association.MELISSA THACKWAY is an independent researcher and translator. She lectures in African cinema at Sciences Po and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris.

“Daniela Ricci brilliantly incorporates sociopolitical, psychological, and philosophical tools in her study of innovative aesthetics created by contemporary filmmakers of African descent. Ricci’s well documented book, beautifully translated by Melissa Thackway, highlights personal journeys and diverse representations of global issues. This is a must-read for researchers in film, African studies, and diaspora studies, as well as other areas of the humanities and social sciences.”—FRANÇOISE PFAFF, Professor Emerita, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Howard University

• Contents Foreword, by Alexie Tcheuyap Acknowledgments Introduction: Contemporary African Diasporic Films Part One. Identities, Representations, and Cinematographic Discourses Chapter 1. The Question of Identity Chapter 2. Cinematographic Representations: Representations and Their Consequences Chapter 3. African Cinema: New Perspectives Part Two. Film Analyses Chapter 4. Introduction to the Socio-Aesthetic Analysis of African Diasporic Film Chapter 5. To Each Their Own Truth: Rage, by Newton I. Aduaka Chapter 6. Between Fiction and Experience: Juju Factory, by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda Chapter 7. In-Between Places: Notre étrangère, by Sarah Bouyain Chapter 8. Interior/Exterior Worlds: L’Afrance, by Alain Gomis Chapter 9. Worlds in Construction and the Intellectual’s Return: Teza, by Haile Gerima In Guise of a Conclusion Notes Bibliography Films Cited Index

DANIELA RICCI teaches film studies at of Paris Nanterre University and the University of Paris 8 in France. She is part of the research laboratory Histoire des Arts et des Représentations and is a member of the African Federation of Film Critics, the African Studies Association, and the African Literature Association.MELISSA THACKWAY is an independent researcher and translator. She lectures in African cinema at Sciences Po and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris.

“Daniela Ricci brilliantly incorporates sociopolitical, psychological, and philosophical tools in her study of innovative aesthetics created by contemporary filmmakers of African descent. Ricci’s well documented book, beautifully translated by Melissa Thackway, highlights personal journeys and diverse representations of global issues. This is a must-read for researchers in film, African studies, and diaspora studies, as well as other areas of the humanities and social sciences.”—FRANÇOISE PFAFF, Professor Emerita, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Howard University

• Contents Foreword, by Alexie Tcheuyap Acknowledgments Introduction: Contemporary African Diasporic Films Part One. Identities, Representations, and Cinematographic Discourses Chapter 1. The Question of Identity Chapter 2. Cinematographic Representations: Representations and Their Consequences Chapter 3. African Cinema: New Perspectives Part Two. Film Analyses Chapter 4. Introduction to the Socio-Aesthetic Analysis of African Diasporic Film Chapter 5. To Each Their Own Truth: Rage, by Newton I. Aduaka Chapter 6. Between Fiction and Experience: Juju Factory, by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda Chapter 7. In-Between Places: Notre étrangère, by Sarah Bouyain Chapter 8. Interior/Exterior Worlds: L’Afrance, by Alain Gomis Chapter 9. Worlds in Construction and the Intellectual’s Return: Teza, by Haile Gerima In Guise of a Conclusion Notes Bibliography Films Cited Index

DANIELA RICCI teaches film studies at of Paris Nanterre University and the University of Paris 8 in France. She is part of the research laboratory Histoire des Arts et des Représentations and is a member of the African Federation of Film Critics, the African Studies Association, and the African Literature Association.MELISSA THACKWAY is an independent researcher and translator. She lectures in African cinema at Sciences Po and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris.

“Daniela Ricci brilliantly incorporates sociopolitical, psychological, and philosophical tools in her study of innovative aesthetics created by contemporary filmmakers of African descent. Ricci’s well documented book, beautifully translated by Melissa Thackway, highlights personal journeys and diverse representations of global issues. This is a must-read for researchers in film, African studies, and diaspora studies, as well as other areas of the humanities and social sciences.”—FRANÇOISE PFAFF, Professor Emerita, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Howard University

• Contents Foreword, by Alexie Tcheuyap Acknowledgments Introduction: Contemporary African Diasporic Films Part One. Identities, Representations, and Cinematographic Discourses Chapter 1. The Question of Identity Chapter 2. Cinematographic Representations: Representations and Their Consequences Chapter 3. African Cinema: New Perspectives Part Two. Film Analyses Chapter 4. Introduction to the Socio-Aesthetic Analysis of African Diasporic Film Chapter 5. To Each Their Own Truth: Rage, by Newton I. Aduaka Chapter 6. Between Fiction and Experience: Juju Factory, by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda Chapter 7. In-Between Places: Notre étrangère, by Sarah Bouyain Chapter 8. Interior/Exterior Worlds: L’Afrance, by Alain Gomis Chapter 9. Worlds in Construction and the Intellectual’s Return: Teza, by Haile Gerima In Guise of a Conclusion Notes Bibliography Films Cited Index