{"title":"African Intimacy and Love with No Pretense: The Erotics of Diaspora in Zina Saro-Wiwa's Eaten by the Heart","authors":"Bimbola Akinbola","doi":"10.1353/wsq.2022.0005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines Zina Saro-Wiwa's documentary project and video installation Eaten by the Heart, which explores intimacy, heartbreak, and love performances among Africans, both on the continent and in the diaspora. Considering the role of the erotic in how diasporic subjects conceptualize and negotiate their attachments to their homeland and host country, Akinbola argues that Saro-Wiwa marks the Black diasporic body as a site of erotic agency. In doing so, Saro-Wiwa simultaneously acknowledges and resists the burden of respectability and cultural norms that hide and dismiss the importance of emotional expression, intimacy, and vulnerability in the lives of African and African diasporic people.","PeriodicalId":23857,"journal":{"name":"Wsq: Women's Studies Quarterly","volume":"8 1","pages":"68 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Wsq: Women's Studies Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2022.0005","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article examines Zina Saro-Wiwa's documentary project and video installation Eaten by the Heart, which explores intimacy, heartbreak, and love performances among Africans, both on the continent and in the diaspora. Considering the role of the erotic in how diasporic subjects conceptualize and negotiate their attachments to their homeland and host country, Akinbola argues that Saro-Wiwa marks the Black diasporic body as a site of erotic agency. In doing so, Saro-Wiwa simultaneously acknowledges and resists the burden of respectability and cultural norms that hide and dismiss the importance of emotional expression, intimacy, and vulnerability in the lives of African and African diasporic people.
摘要:本文考察吉娜·萨罗-维瓦的纪录片项目和录像装置作品《被心吞噬》(eating by the Heart)，它探讨了非洲人和散居海外的非洲人之间的亲密、心碎和爱的表现。考虑到在流散的主体如何概念化和协商他们对家园和东道国的依恋中色情的作用，Akinbola认为Saro-Wiwa标志着黑人流散的身体作为色情代理的场所。在这样做的过程中，Saro-Wiwa同时承认并抵制了尊重和文化规范的负担，这些规范隐藏和忽视了情感表达、亲密关系和脆弱在非洲和非洲流散人民生活中的重要性。
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