Dias, IC (2020) Filming the Nation in Post-Independence Mozambique. Third Text, 34 (4-5). pp. 538-550. ISSN 0952-8822
Abstract
When Mozambique gained independence in 1975, film became one of its most important cultural projects, second only to radio. One of the pressing issues of the new government was to create an idea of nationhood in a country where many ethnic groups, cultures, and languages coexisted. With a literacy rate of only fifteen per cent, film became an important tool in the creation of national identity, by serving as a vehicle for imagining a new community, in the sense described by Benedict Anderson in Imagined Communities. In 1976, the government created the Instituto Nacional de Cinema (National Film Institute) – INC. In this article, I discuss how the new nation was imagined through cinema, in particular in the Kuxa Kanema series, and the impact that it had on the idea of Mozambican nationhood.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Third Text. This is an author produced version of an article published in Third Text. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Inês Cordeiro Dias; Mozambican cinema; Kuxa Kanema; anti-colonial struggle; nationhood; Mozambican independence; Instituto Nacional de Cinema; Mozambican National Film Institute; national liberation and cinema; Third Cinema; militant cinema |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Spanish & Portuguese (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2021 14:58 |
Last Modified: | 20 May 2022 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09528822.2020.1832743 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:171871 |