GIVE ME BACK MY BLACK DOLLS: DAMAS’ AFRICA AND ITS MUSEIFICATION, FROM POETRY TO MOVING PICTURES

Authors

  • Matthias De Groof
  • Kathleen Gyssels

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.CCN.6-2.10

Abstract

This essay links Léon-Gontran Damas’ poetry to Matthias De Groof’s experimental film, Rendez-les moi, which is based on Damas’ poem “Limbé.” By offering an interpretation of “Limbé” in relation to the museification of African artifacts, the film frames the re-evaluation of Damas as artistic intervention. Kathleen Gyssels engages the way the visual experimentation tries to galvanize Damas’ artistic vision and focuses on the figure of Damas’ black dolls as a metaphor for gendered discrimination, thereby moving beyond classic antagonisms of Négritude.

References

Caribbean Cinema Now

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Published

2018-02-02

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2015): Caribbean Cinema Now

Section

Articles

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How to Cite

GIVE ME BACK MY BLACK DOLLS: DAMAS’ AFRICA AND ITS MUSEIFICATION, FROM POETRY TO MOVING PICTURES. (2018). Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 6(2), 112-123. https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.CCN.6-2.10