Langford, Rachael ![]() |
Abstract
Focusing on footwear in African films affords the possibility of understanding more about film and material culture and about the representation of agency, power and politics in post-Independence African cultural production. This chapter will begin by exploring the major critical approaches to clothing practices in Africa, outlining how these approaches underplay the specific ontological status of footwear. The chapter then examines how the anti-colonial writings of Bernard Dadié (1916–2019) and Frantz Fanon (1925–61) mobilise the ontological status of footwear for resistant purposes, arguing that these works set up representational paradigms grounding the debates with which post-Independence African filmmaking...
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Schools > Modern Languages |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2025 14:45 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/124756 |
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