African pasts, presents, and futures
Subtitle: generational shifts in African women's literature, film, and internet discourse
By: Touria Khannous
Series: After the empire : the Francophone world and postcolonial France; After the empire
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780739170410; 9780739170427
Subjects: Motion pictures; African literature; Internet and women; History and criticism; Women authors; Women and literature; Internet; Women motion picture producers and directors; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Theoretical introduction --; title: Negotiating colonial and national politics --; title: Algerian women in the public sphere: remaking herStory in Assia Djebar's film La Nouba des Femmes du Mont Chenoua --; title: Ama ata Aidoo's modernism and the politics of postcolonialism --; title: Rewriting power : Bessie Head's revolutionary politics --; title: Postcolonial injustices --; title: National reconciliation through narrative : Malika Oufkir's Stolen lives --; title: National violence and male crisis discourse in Yvonne Vera's The stone virgins --; title: Political satire in Tess Onuweme's play No vacancy --; title: Reflections on Islam, identity and gender --; title: Islam, gender and identity in Leila Abouzeid's The last chapter : a postcolonial critique --; title: Strategies of representation and post/colonial identity in Farida Benlyazid's Door to the sky and Moufida Tlatli's Silences of the palace --; title: Islam, youth and the global : Leila Merrakshi's controversial film Marock --; title: Internet discourse and women as agents of change --; title: Debating Islam, gender and the Arab Spring : Moroccan and Tunisian women's cyberspace.