Littoral liminality : the colonial beaches of Zama and Salt of this sea
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Theatre and Film, Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Sanau, Jasmine
issued: 2025-05-29T18:43:29Z
issued: 2025
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This thesis explores the beach as a site of decoloniality, whose place in-between land and ocean complicates stable binaries of ownership and infuses a racially-Othered subjectivity in its materiality. In what I term littoral liminality, the possibility of a watery, fluid ontology defies the logic and structures of coloniality and the Anthroprocene in a powerfully subdued resistance. I analyze Lucrecia Martel’s Zama (2017) whose beach is not simply the film’s setting, but also the instigator to the white colonial protagonist who desperately seeks his escape, and Annemarie Jacir’s Salt of this Sea (2008), which confronts the ownership of Palestinian beaches through a fluid embodiment to resist the hard lines and borders of the Israeli occupation. This paper is a careful mediation between two different spaces, time, and subjectivities through the shared site of the beach.
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note: LITTORAL LIMINALITY: THE COLONIAL BEACHES OF ZAMA AND SALT OF THIS SEA by Jasmine Sanau B.A., The University of British Columbia, 2023 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Cinema and Media Studies) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) May 2025 © Jasmine Sanau, 2025 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the thesis entitled: Littoral Liminality: The Colonial Beaches of Zama and Salt of this Sea submitted by Jasmine Sanau in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Cinema and Media Studies Examining Committee: Dr. Mila Zuo, Associate Professor, Dept. of Theatre and Film The University of British Columbia Supervisor Dr. Alessandra Santos, Associate Professor, Dept. of Theatre and Film The University of British Columbia Supervisory Committee Member iii Abstract This thesis explores the beach as a site of decoloniality, whose place in-between land and ocean complicates stable binaries of ownership and infuses a racially-Othered subjectivity in its materiality. In what I term littoral liminality, the possibility of a watery, fluid ontology defies the logic and structures of coloniality and the Anthroprocene in a powerfully subdued resistance. I analyze Lucrecia Martel’s Zama (2017) whose beach is not simply the film’s setting, but also the instigator to the white colonial protagonist who desperately seeks his escape, and Annemarie Jacir’s Salt of this Sea (2008), which confronts the ownership of Palestinian beaches through a fluid embodiment to resist the hard lines and borders of the Israeli occupation. This paper is a careful mediation between two different spaces, time, and subjectivities through the shared site of the beach. iv Lay Summary This thesis examines two cinematic beaches in colonial Argentina and present-d…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2025-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0448983
language: eng
degree discipline: Cinema and Media Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Zuo, Mila, 1982-
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/91237