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The role of a hermeneutics of contrapuntality in resisting resolutions of hybridity
Creator(s)
Zuhra Amini
Date
May 9, 2018
Department or Program
Race and Ethnic Studies
Advisor(s)
Zahi Zalloua
Abstract
Ana Lily Amirpour's first feature film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night offers a hybrid aesthetic that reflects the cross-cultural experience of individuals situated in diasporic communities. How does one read this hybrid aesthetic form without flattening its scope? To tease out the implications of such a reading, I turn to Edward Said theory of contrapuntality which concerns how to read overlapping and contesting experiences.
