{"id":3158,"date":"2018-02-16T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grupo.us.es\/compoliticas\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2020-12-16T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T11:27:35","slug":"displacement-and-the-quest-for-identity-in-alain-gomiss-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/compoliticas\/displacement-and-the-quest-for-identity-in-alain-gomiss-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Displacement and the Quest for Identity in Alain Gomis\u2019s Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sendra Fern\u00e1ndez, Estrella (2018).<\/p>\n<p><em>Black Camera: An International Film Journal,&nbsp;<\/em>9(2), 360-390.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.2979\/blackcamera.9.2.23?seq=1\">Acceder al art\u00edculo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this essay, I seek to explore the cinema of Alain Gomis through a focus on his depiction of displacement, particularly in L&#8217;Afrance \/ As a Man (2001), Andalucia \/ Andalusia (2007), and Tey \/ Today (2012), in order to show that these films share a similar aesthetic approach. I argue that Gomis&#8217;s aesthetic approach is marked by intimacy and embodiment, which are strategies employed within the rich Senegalese film heritage in general. Gomis&#8217;s multisensorial cinema features narratives that result from a combination of visual and aural elements, which also suggest an investment in the haptic. The displaced subjects partake in a quest for identity but realize that their displacement, as a psychological state of being, may never be resolved and thus leads to disturbing situations. Gomis&#8217;s portrayal of displacement sheds light on contemporary Senegal and the challenges of human mobility, a reality lived by a large part of the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sendra Fern\u00e1ndez, Estrella (2018). Black Camera: An International Film Journal,&nbsp;9(2), 360-390. Acceder al art\u00edculo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[237],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publicaciones","tag-estudios-visuales-y-critica-de-la-imagen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/compoliticas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BLC9.2Cover.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa0lgR-OW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/compoliticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/compoliticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/compoliticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/compoliticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/compoliticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/compoliticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3160,"href":"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/compoliticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions\/3160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/compoliticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/compoliticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/compoliticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/compoliticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}