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Title: | Raoul Peck's 'Lumumba' and 'Lumumba: la mort du prophète': on cultural amnesia and historical erasure |
Author: | Barr, Burlin |
Year: | 2011 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review (ISSN 1555-2462) |
Volume: | 54 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 85-116 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) |
Subjects: | films politicians memory |
About persons: | Patrice Emery Lumumba (1925-1961) Raoul Peck |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_studies_review/v054/54.1.barr.pdf |
Abstract: | This article examines two films by Raoul Peck, 'Lumumba: la mort du prophète' (1992) and 'Lumumba' (2000) that offer vastly divergent methods for remembering, memorializing, and meditating on the life and death of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (June 1960). Peck succeeds in creating films that do more than preserve or resuscitate a historical record. The earlier film in particular performs analytic historical work as it delves into the conflicted historical record in which Lumumba is remembered. Peck uses an experimental and confrontational approach to reveal the ongoing forms of cultural censorship that have attempted to erase Lumumba and his legacy. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |