Negrometraje is a podcast that critically thinks and deconstructs Black representation in Latin American mass media and films. Negrometraje is a derogatory yet popular term that translates in English to “Black Feature Film.” We center our work on Caliban, a Shakespeare's character in the play "The Tempest". In today’s episode, we discuss El Otro Francisco. This documentary drama by Sergio Girl tells the love story of Francisco and Dorothea and, the horrific reality of enslavement in 19th century Cuba. We discuss what is Negrometraje, its definition, and how we will use it. It is Aimé Césaire's, A Tempest that lays the path that “dramatizes all four possible courses of action for the slaves: Collaboration, Opposition, Resistance, and Separatism”. Program 0:00: Prologue: from (Caliban: The Tempest) 3:47: Preliminary Conversation: Negrometraje and Sergio Giral 18:16: interlude: Una Mano con otra mano 20:40: Pre-viewing discussion (Ripple affects of Haitian Revolution) 31:02: Interlude: Crispin y la lluvia 31:27: post-viewing discussion (Sugar economy, and slavery in Cuba) 45:51: Caliban Theory 50:56: Outro and Next feature film: Pelo Malo
Notes and Links
—podcast theme song by : John and Anastasia
—Movie Reviewed:Lesage, Julia, Jump Cut; “The Other Francisco Creating History,” Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media.No.30, March 1985, pp.53-58
—Interlude “El Otro Francisco by Sergio Giral.” Youtube, Nov 21, 2015. Carlos Lopez.
—Links and Resources: “Why should you read Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’? -Iseult Gillespie.” Youtube, Feb 5, 2019.TED-Ed. Cort, Aisha Z. "Rethinking Caliban: Shakespeare and Césaire in the "Negrometraje" of Sergio Giral." Afro-Hispanic Review 33, no. 2 (2014): 41-58. Accessed August 19, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/24585221. Bruner, Charlotte H. "The Meaning of Caliban in Black Literature Today." Comparative Literature Studies 13, no. 3 (1976): 240-53. Accessed August 19, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/40246045. Retamar, Roberto Fernández. "Para La Historia De Calibán." Guaraguao 2, no. 4 (1997): 76-90. Accessed August 19, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/25596001. Kaisary, Philip. “Black Agency and Aesthetic Innovation in Sergio Giral’s El otro Francisco.” Publication of the Afro-Latin/AMerican Reasearch Association, Fall 2009, Issue 23. Zabus, Chantal. “The Rise of Caliban.” Tempests after Shakespeare, June 29, 2002.
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