Young on the postcolonial

“the Italians had left, but the ghosts of their continuing presence could still be heard almost fifty years later”

Pinkus on postcolonial/postwar logic

“The logic that links Africa, and racial thinking, with the postwar periphery is a logic of forgetting.”

Pinkus on the African fantasy

“The fantasy of endless and boundaryless territory.”

McFarlane on the visual tools

Film relies on “semiotically charged tools”

McFarlane on intertextuality

Of “varying importance to viewers depending on how well or little they know or care about the pre-cursor text.”

Ellena on racial contradiction

“sessualità interrazziale” vs “bianchezza del corpo nazionale”

Skalle on the Black Venus

“she, the dark continent, is servile and eager to capitulate to and please her master"

Skalle on the power dynamic

“the man is in power; he sees the woman’s fear, but ignores it and sets himself in the position of the master and conqueror”

Kaplan on the imperial gaze

“reflects the assumption that the white Western subject is central, much as the male gaze assumes centrality of the male subject”

Freud's omnipotence of thought

Viewed in the Lieutenant's ability to convince himself of leprosy

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A Time to Kill

Secondary reading: Context and theory

Question	Answer
Young on the postcolonial	“the Italians had left, but the ghosts of their continuing presence could still be heard almost fifty years later”
Pinkus on postcolonial/postwar logic	“The logic that links Africa, and racial thinking, with the postwar periphery is a logic of forgetting.”
Pinkus on the African fantasy	“The fantasy of endless and boundaryless territory.”
McFarlane on the visual tools	Film relies on “semiotically charged tools”
McFarlane on intertextuality	Of “varying importance to viewers depending on how well or little they know or care about the pre-cursor text.”
Ellena on the Italians' mission	"missione civilazzatrice"
Ellena on racial contradiction	“sessualità interrazziale” vs “bianchezza del corpo nazionale”
Skalle on the Black Venus	“she, the dark continent, is servile and eager to capitulate to and please her master"
Skalle on the power dynamic	“the man is in power; he sees the woman’s fear, but ignores it and sets himself in the position of the master and conqueror”
Kaplan on the imperial gaze	“reflects the assumption that the white Western subject is central, much as the male gaze assumes centrality of the male subject”
Freud's omnipotence of thought	Viewed in the Lieutenant's ability to convince himself of leprosy

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