| Although slavery was abolished in France more than 150 years ago, the domination of the French Empire suffered by the various colonies, left visible traces on the populations. Through its oppression, its physical and psychological violence, and the imposition of a Western model to follow, colonization has left behind peoples emptied of their own culture, their language and their identity.;In 2017, a film produced by Emmanuel Parraud, entitled Sac la mort, will be the perfect cinematographic illustration of this postcolonial situation on Reunion Island. Based on postcolonial theories, the director manages to show this "alienation of the black people", a theory that has been developed by Frantz Fanon in his work Black skin, white masks, according to which the former colonized became a stranger to himself, having adopted the culture and language of the colonizer. But, beyond this alienation, a real psychological suffering exists, a suffering that gnaws these former colonized populations from the inside, which prevents them from moving forward, anchors them to their past of slaves, and which, above all, destroys them slowly.;Despite this sad reality, perfectly portrayed in Sac la mort, the author manages to offer us the vision of hope, by the population of Reunion Island, of a better future. The Reunionese population, just like all those former colonized population from Guadeloupe, Martinique or Africa, become aware of their value and want to reclaim and defend their culture, language and identity that were once stolen. |
