탈식민의 목소리: <다호메이>의 언어⋅ 음성⋅ 서술 = Decolonial Voices: Language, Voice, and Narration in Dahomey

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article analyzes Mati Diop's documentary Dahomey (2024) and examines how the question of African cultural restitution—centered on the 2021 transfer of twenty-six royal treasures from France to Benin—is configured in the film through the forms of language, voice, and narration. Chapter 2, drawing on postcolonial theory (notably Frantz Fanon), argues that the film does not simply represent restitution as an institutional procedure but frames it as a confrontation between a dominant order and the conditions of speech. Chapter 3 mobilizes Michel Chion's concepts of the acousmêtre and de-acousmatization to show that the voice of King Ghézo (“No. 26”) remains not fully bound to a visible body, generating an aural tension that contrasts the museum regime—operating through numbering, cataloguing, and sealing—with the ritual status of African sculpture. Chapter 4, referring to Gérard Genette's narratology, demonstrates that this voice functions as a narrative voice organizing the film as a whole and produces the affective logic of accented cinema.