Abstract
ABSTRACT The focus on colonial power and domination tend to muffle the emotional complexities, ambiguous attachments, and cultural paradoxes of persons who become wards of colonial educational systems. Drawing on feminist thought, film philosophy, and postcolonial cultural theories, Hannah M. Tavares provides a reading of Amanda Kernell’s film Sami Blood. Tavares argues that the focalisation on the female protagonist’s body Elle Marja and the different humiliations and kinds of experiences that mark, mutilate her dignity, and complicate her desires in the film is instructive for thinking and writing the dense and multilayered thickness of postcolonial cultural histories. Tavares concentrates on the film’s compositional elements and narrative to introduce an approach that is attentive to the preoccupations of postcolonial theorising to the English-speaking reader.
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