Corpos que acontecem na fronteira

Corpos que acontecem na fronteira

Palestine is a symbol of exile. In a way, all Palestinians live in a state of literal or metaphorical exile. For this reason, it is impossible to analyze Palestinian women’s cinema without locating these women in their (non)place: exile. In this article I discuss films of women screenwriter-director...

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Main Author: Shahd Wadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2014-12-01
Series:e-cadernos ces
Subjects:
body
exile
border
cinema
Palestine
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/eces/1836
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spelling doaj-c3ec32a06cde45078fc1a8ba7321b9cb2020-11-25T01:21:34ZengCentro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbrae-cadernos ces1647-07372014-12-012210.4000/eces.1836Corpos que acontecem na fronteiraShahd WadiPalestine is a symbol of exile. In a way, all Palestinians live in a state of literal or metaphorical exile. For this reason, it is impossible to analyze Palestinian women’s cinema without locating these women in their (non)place: exile. In this article I discuss films of women screenwriter-directors who live outside Palestine: Salt of This (2008), by Annemarie Jacir, and Amreeka (2009), by Cherien Dabis. I question how both protagonists and simultaneously how both screenwriters-directors, try to (un)define the notion of home, exile, and border. I ask whether these women managed to find a place of their own through their bodies in film.http://journals.openedition.org/eces/1836bodyexilebordercinemaPalestine
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publisher Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
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publishDate 2014-12-01
description Palestine is a symbol of exile. In a way, all Palestinians live in a state of literal or metaphorical exile. For this reason, it is impossible to analyze Palestinian women’s cinema without locating these women in their (non)place: exile. In this article I discuss films of women screenwriter-directors who live outside Palestine: Salt of This (2008), by Annemarie Jacir, and Amreeka (2009), by Cherien Dabis. I question how both protagonists and simultaneously how both screenwriters-directors, try to (un)define the notion of home, exile, and border. I ask whether these women managed to find a place of their own through their bodies in film.
topic body
exile
border
cinema
Palestine
url http://journals.openedition.org/eces/1836
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