The ghostly matter of asylum in Kivu Ruhorahoza’s A Tree Has Fallen (Europa)

This paper applies Avery Gordon’s insights in Ghostly Matters to Kivu Ruhorahoza’s 2019 film, A Tree Has Fallen, and vice-versa. For Gordon, the ghost reveals visibility itself to be “a complex system of permissions and prohibitions.” The ghost is a case, as Gordon puts it, of “visible invisibility...

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Main Author: MaryEllen Higgins
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association 2019-04-01
Series:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
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Online Access:https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/6269