Podróż do Nowego Świata. Filmowa fikcja etnograficzna w perspektywie postkolonialnej
Journey to the New World. Cinematic Ethnographic Fiction in Post-Colonial Perspective

Summary/Abstract: Starting from James Clifford’s statement that ethnography is a product of travel experience and referring to the concept of Michael Taussig, who in his studies of South American tribes took into account the history of colonial conquest, the impact of missionary activities and the role of cultural borrowings, Loska proposes an analysis of the Colombian film "Embrace of the Serpent" ("El abrazo de la serpiente", 2015, directed by Ciro Guerra) in a post-colonial perspective. The author interprets this film as an attempt to critically consider the Amazon myth, that is the European fantasy created by explorers and travellers seeking Paradise Lost, but also as a story of disinheritance from tradition, loss of memory by indigenous people, reflection on the effects of colonial violence and hybridization (understood as a space where influences clash and languages mix).

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