Chocolat e Minha Terra África: reflexões sobre identidade e pertencimento em contexto pós-colonial

Abstract

This paper is interested in a reflection on identity and belonging in a postcolonial context from the films of the French filmmaker Claire Denis: Chocolat (1988) and White Material (2009). The two works seem to us central to expanding discussion of identity and belonging in the postcolonial world, since both relate to a “foreign body” that seeks its place, its protagonists question themselves about being Other; while the notion of frontier - whether geographical or not - becomes the backdrop to their stories. To do so, we take these films from the perspective of intercultural cinema (MARKS, 2000) in order to understand how the relations of identity and belonging are established in a postcolonial context, from the individual stories of the characters articulated to cultural stories and memories.