Touki Bouki(des)encuadres políticos de la diáspora estética

Zusammenfassung

The paper proposes an approach to the film Touki Bouki (1973) by the senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty. As epistemological frame I use concepts from Jacques Rancière’s philosophy to explore the film in its own ambivalence between: (1) representational images from a post-Independance context in Dakar (Senegal); and (2) a metaphor of the diaspora representations toward an «aesthetic diaspora» (Peffer, 2013). I explore the film as a displacement from discursive political practices to aesthetic political practices. The film is not made of documentary images, as the militant cinema or Third Cinema does; but it’s made of aesthetic and fictional identification forms able to avoid colonial logics. 
Finally, I aim to explore the staging of the film as a reassembly of visual resources and tools from the nouvelle vague with a political and social apparatus of visibility that defies the historiographic logic of colonial subalternity and goes beyond the dicotomic discourses of master-slave / oppressor-oppressed.