ABSTRACT

The focus on colonial power and domination tend to muffle the emotional complexities, ambiguous attachments, and cultural paradoxes of persons who become wards of colonial educational systems. Drawing on feminist thought, film philosophy, and postcolonial cultural theories, Hannah M. Tavares provides a reading of Amanda Kernell’s film Sami Blood. Tavares argues that the focalisation on the female protagonist’s body Elle Marja and the different humiliations and kinds of experiences that mark, mutilate her dignity, and complicate her desires in the film is instructive for thinking and writing the dense and multilayered thickness of postcolonial cultural histories. Tavares concentrates on the film’s compositional elements and narrative to introduce an approach that is attentive to the preoccupations of postcolonial theorising to the English-speaking reader.

摘要

对殖民权力和统治的关注往往会掩盖那些成为殖民教育系统病房的人的情感复杂性、模棱两可的依恋和文化悖论。借鉴女权主义思想、电影哲学和后殖民文化理论，Hannah M. Tavares 提供了对 Amanda Kernell 的电影 Sami Blood 的解读。塔瓦雷斯认为，电影中对女性主人公艾丽·玛尔雅身体的聚焦以及标志着、伤害她的尊严和使她的欲望复杂化的各种羞辱和经历，对于思考和书写后殖民文化历史的密集和多层次的厚度具有指导意义。