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The Postnormal Condition and the Politics of Migration in Biyi Bandele’s Half of a Yellow Sun
ISSN: 2603 - 3283
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The Postnormal Condition and the Politics of Migration in Biyi Bandele’s Half of a Yellow Sun
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Publisher: Vtu Review: Studies In The Humanities And Social Sciences ..
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Abstract
Civil wars, political chaos, ecological revolutions, separatist agitations, ethnic conflicts and religious clashes form part of the larger body of what, following Ziauddin Sardar, we will define as “postnormal times.†The representation of borders in migration is a salient feature of African films and films on Africa, such as Hotel Rwanda, Blood Diamond, Half of a Yellow Sun, Tears of the Sun and Somewhere in Africa: The Cries of Humanity. These cinematic productions are rooted in the culture of migration, displacement, liberation and survival. The present article considers postcolonial African cinema and argues that filming migration, especially forced migration, is intricately related to the postnormal condition characteristic of African societies. Postnormality in that part of the world is largely produced by armed conflicts whose aftermath stages spectacular waves of human migration. The Boko Haram conflict, the Herdsmen crisi...
