Film as archive: Africa Addio and the ambiguities of remembrance in contemporary Zanzibar
FOUÉRÉ, Marie-Aude
Institut des Mondes Africains [IMAF]
École des hautes études en sciences sociales [EHESS]
Institut des Mondes Africains [IMAF]
École des hautes études en sciences sociales [EHESS]
FOUÉRÉ, Marie-Aude
Institut des Mondes Africains [IMAF]
École des hautes études en sciences sociales [EHESS]
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Institut des Mondes Africains [IMAF]
École des hautes études en sciences sociales [EHESS]
Language
en
Article de revue
This item was published in
Social Anthropology / Anthropologie sociale. 2016, vol. 24, n° 1
Berghahn Journals (ex Wiley)
English Abstract
The Italian shock documentary Africa Addio contains a sequence about massacres that occurred during the Zanzibar revolution of 1964. Perceived by some of its Zanzibari viewers as a container of factual evidence of the ...Read more >
The Italian shock documentary Africa Addio contains a sequence about massacres that occurred during the Zanzibar revolution of 1964. Perceived by some of its Zanzibari viewers as a container of factual evidence of the brutality of this epochal event, this sequence is contested by others who assert that it was staged or re-enacted. One critical aspect of these oppositional views concerns the very status of this documentary and the trust that can be placed in it as an archival record. Whether Africa Addio is seen as authentic or fabricated, it provides Zanzibaris with a medium through which to revisit the past and rethink Zanzibari society in the present.Read less <
English Keywords
revolution of 1964
Zanzibar
Africa Addio
archive
documentary
Origin
Hal importedCollections