When Negroes Speak of Rivers: Miamian Négritude in Sarah Maldoror’s Film Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

Abstract: This essay focuses on Sarah Maldoror’s stylistic and narrative choices in her documentary Aimé Césaire: Le masque des mots/Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words (1987). Originally commissioned to document a monumental academic conference, Negritude, Ethnicity and Afro Cultures in the Americas, the film positions Miami as a Black World center as Maldoror explores connections between landscapes in South Florida and Martinique.

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African American Review
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2025-03-01
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https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2025.a973161
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Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
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When Negroes Speak of Rivers: Miamian Négritude in Sarah Maldoror’s Film Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

Terri Francis
African American Review
Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
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When Negroes Speak of Rivers: Miamian Négritude in Sarah Maldoror’s Film Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

Terri Francis
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Abstract: This essay focuses on Sarah Maldoror’s stylistic and narrative choices in her documentary Aimé Césaire: Le masque des mots/Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words (1987). Originally commissioned to document a monumental academic conference, Negritude, Ethnicity and Afro Cultures in the Americas, the film positions Miami as a Black World center as Maldoror explores connections between landscapes in South Florida and Martinique.

African American ReviewVol. 58(1)
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Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
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