ENGL 2P53 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Neill Blomkamp, Jean Comaroff, W. E. B. Du Bois

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Uses convenions of sci i, acion ilm, buddy ilm, documentary, to explore a post-apartheid. South africa that looks like apartheid south africa at the height of the state of emergency in. Shows persistence of colonial, apartheid geographies in the present (separaion of groups from one another not a thing of the past) Jean comarof the use of violence to orchestrate and police them the use of authority (scieniic, poliical, legal, bureacraic) to jusify them. Film uses convenion of estrangement (or for russian formalists, defamiliarizaion, or for w. e. b. du bois. Double consciousness ) to look at alien culture to approach our own culture from a disoriening angle. Quesions raised: what, exactly, makes something/someone alien or strange, what happens when the self becomes alien ? (wikus" transformaion) Degrees/ sites of estrangement naional (nigerian/ south african, e. g. ) racial (black/white, e. g. ) cultural (english/afrikaans, e. g. ) species (human/non-human and human/alien)

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