Re-Framing Loss in South Sudan’s Biographical Cinema: Political and Cultural Nationalism in “Lost Boys” Diaspora Film, Runner

Addamms Mututa

doi:10.1080/08989575.2025.2470490

Re-Framing Loss in South Sudan’s Biographical Cinema: Political and Cultural Nationalism in “Lost Boys” Diaspora Film, Runner

Addamms Mututa

Communication and Media Studies

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Abstract

This article discusses Sudan’s Lost Boys’ autobiographical film Runner as a diasporic commentary on South Sudan’s political and cultural nationalism. It argues that aesthetic deviancy, semantic continuity, and loss are semiotic categories syncing the past and the contemporary, and the national and the personal.

Original language	English
Journal	a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2025.2470490
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2025

Keywords

Guor Mading Maker
Juba Film Festival
Lost Boys of Sudan
South Sudan cinema

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Cultural Studies
History
Literature and Literary Theory

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Re-Framing Loss in South Sudan’s Biographical Cinema: Political and Cultural Nationalism in “Lost Boys” Diaspora Film, Runner

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