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While historical experience is opaque and irrecoverable, it may be partially retrieved and confronted through aesthetic re-articulations. This chapter examines this process of memory reclamation in John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses, a film about migration and the legacies of colonialism that makes explicit the connection between memory, ethics, and artistic practice.
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Grønstad, A. (2016). The Ethics of Matter and Memory. In: Film and the Ethical Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58374-1_15
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