African Pasts, Presents, and Futures

Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Av Touria Khannous Ph.D, Ph.D Khannous, Touria, Touria Khannous

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African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African women’s cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial studies in general, and African and gender studies in particular. It examines some of the more overarching questions that are prevalent in the works of African women authors, who position themselves within the contexts of Islam, feminism, nationalism, modernity, and global and postcolonial politics, thus engaging in the construction of socio-political platforms for reform in their home countries. The book explores different aspects of women’s agency at the political, cultural, social, religious and aesthetic level, and highlights their civil society activism and push for legal reform. It also traces their opinions on a range of social and political questions and underscores fundamental shifts in their positions and concerns through the different generations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-10-17
Mått157 x 236 x 22 mm
Vikt463 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAfter the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Antal sidor230
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739170410

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Touria Khannous is an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and the International Studies Program at Louisiana State University. She has published articles on women’s writing from Africa and the African diaspora, African cinema, black diaspora studies, and cultural studies. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Black-Arab Encounters: Representations of Blackness in Arabic Literature.

Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsTheoretical IntroductionPart I: Negotiating Colonial and National PoliticsChapter 1Algerian Women in the Public Sphere: Remaking / Her / Story in Assia Djebar’s Film La Nouba des Femmes du Mont ChenouaChapter 2Ama Ata Aidoo’s Modernism and the Politics of PostcolonialismChapter 3Rewriting Power: Bessie Head’s Revolutionary PoliticsPart II: Postcolonial InjusticesChapter 4National Reconciliation through Narrative: Malika Oufkir’s Stolen LivesChapter 5National Violence and Male Crisis Discourse in Yvonne Vera’s The Stone VirginsChapter 6Political Satire in Tess Onuweme’s Play No VacancyPart III: Reflections on Islam, Identity and GenderChapter 7Islam, Gender and Identity in Leila Abouzeid’s The Last Chapter: A Postcolonial CritiqueChapter 8Strategies of Representation and Post/colonial Identity in Farida Benlyazid’s Door to the Sky and Moufida Tlatli’s Silences of the PalaceChapter 9Islam, Youth and the Global: Leila Merrakshi’s Controversial Film MarockPart IV: Internet Discourse and Women as Agents of ChangeChapter 10Debating Islam, Gender and the Arab Spring: Moroccan and Tunisian Women’s CyberspaceConclusionBibliography/Filmography