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Concerning violence: Fanon, Africa and temporality
This article examines the political significance of temporal structures in Om våld (Concerning Violence) (Olsson 2014), a documentary that takes its title from the chapter of the same name in Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. The film comprises archive footage shot by Swedish television crews in Africa between the mid-1960s and 1987. It pairs images with extracts from Fanon’s book, read by singer and activist Lauryn Hill. This assemblage both celebrates African campaigns of liberation and complicates the claim to be ‘here and now’ embedded in archival material by overlaying it with a retrospective (often melancholic) vantage point, that of a post-colonial moment. On occasion Concerning Violence comes close to reproducing a temporal framing that consigns Black Africans to the symbolic immobility critiqued by Fanon and, more recently, Achille Mbembe. How does the film endeavour to avoid this? How successful is it in arguing for the enduring relevance of Fanon’s thought?
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Journal of Scandinavian CinemaISSN
2042-7905Publisher
Intellect PublishersPublisher URL
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- Media and Film Publications
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2023-04-13First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2023-04-13Usage metrics
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