Visual Violence and Fatal Beauty: A Collaborative Analysis of Black Girlhood in Mossane And Atlantique

Colleen Baskin (), Tamecka Marecheau-Miller (), Jaedyn Griddine () and Subha Xavier
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Colleen Baskin: Emory University
Tamecka Marecheau-Miller: Emory University
Jaedyn Griddine: Emory University
Subha Xavier: Emory University

Chapter Chapter 13 in African Feminist Girlhood Studies and Development, 2025, pp 245-259 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Armed with a preliminary investigation into Mossane and Atlantique through the paradigms of gender, sexuality, and race with a consideration towards the social and industrial backdrop of each film, Baskin, Marcheau-Miller, and Jaedyn Griddine analyze filmmakers’ contributions to depictions of girlhood. In their effort to reframe discussions of African girlhoods, they draw on bell hooks’s incisive naming that “Black female critical thinkers concerned with creating space for the construction of radical black female subjectivity.” This work provides insight into the way cultural production in mass media, film in particular, serves as a powerful site for critical intervention to inform possibility. There is great responsibility media must take up to intervene in nearly a century of filmic repression of Black female characters, and to offer unconventional representations.

Keywords: Atlantique; Bell hooks; Black female; Film; Mossane; Radical; Subjectivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-91561-1_13

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