Cine postcolonial y de género. La diáspora afro-caribeña en el Reino Unido

Emilia María Durán Almarza

doi:10.3989/arbor.2012.758n6011

Authors

Emilia María Durán Almarza Universidad de Oviedo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2012.758n6011

Keywords:

Caribbean diasporas, post-colonial film, transnational feminism, gender, ethnicity

Abstract

This article offers a critical re-evaluation of films directed by women of Caribbean descent in the United Kingdom. Although their presence in the British tradition is limited, given the marginal position they occupy as a result of the combination of variables such as race, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class, their contribution to British, Afro-diasporic and feminist film traditions cannot be underestimated. Drawing on comparative and transcultural approaches to analyse The Passion of Remembrance, co-directed by Maurine Blackwood and Isaac Julien, and Dreaming Rivers, directed by Martine Atille, both belonging to Sankofa Film Collective, this study highlights the multiple ways in which their work contributed to epistemological developments in the sphere of the so-called "British Black Arts Movement" of the 80s and 90s, as well as to the establishment of what has been called British postcolonial filmmaking.

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