Algeria cuts
Subtitle: women and representation, 1830 to the present
By: Ranjana Khanna
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780804752619; 9780804752626
Subjects: Women -- Algeria -- Political activity; Women -- Algeria -- Social conditions; Women's rights -- Algeria -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-293) and index
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction : the living dead; title: Theorizing justice; title: Frames, contexts, community, justice; title: The experience of evidence : language, the law, and the mockery of justice; title: Melancholic remainders; title: The battle of Algiers and the Nouba of the women : from third to fourth cinema; title: Women of Algiers in their apartment : trauma, melancholia, and nationalism; title: Algeria beyond itself; title: Latent ghosts and the manifesto : baya, breton, and reading for the future; title: "Araby" (dubliners) and a sister to scheherazade : women's time and the time of the nation; title: Afterword