Algeria Cuts
Subtitle: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: November 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780804752619
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Women's studies; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; African; Semiotics & Theory; Women's Studies - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Middle Eastern; Algeria; History; Political activity; Social conditions; Women; Women's rights
Description: "Algeria Cuts discusses the figure of woman, both under colonial rule in Algeria and within the postcolonial independent nation-state. It is an interdisciplinary project that spans fine art, film, colonial and legal policy, manifestos, prose fiction, and theoretical and philosophical texts concerning the relationship between France and Algeria. Khanna investigates gendered representation, identification, and justice, and in the process, calls into question the ways in which conventional disciplinary frameworks foreclose certain avenues of reflection while foregrounding others. Algeria Cuts seeks to understand Algeria and Algerian women as a philosophical site that facilitates an understanding of justice and the pursuit of feminism."--Book cover.