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African pasts, presents, and futures : generational shifts in African women's literature, film, and internet discourse

Title: African pasts, presents, and futures : generational shifts in African women's literature, film, and internet discourse / Touria Khannous.
Author: Khannous, Touria, 1968-
Publication: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

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Description

xxv, 203 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

After the empire : the Francophone world and postcolonial France

Uniform Title

After the empire.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index.

Contents

Theoretical introduction -- Negotiating colonial and national politics -- Algerian women in the public sphere: remaking herStory in Assia Djebar's film La Nouba des Femmes du Mont Chenoua -- Ama ata Aidoo's modernism and the politics of postcolonialism -- Rewriting power : Bessie Head's revolutionary politics -- Postcolonial injustices -- National reconciliation through narrative : Malika Oufkir's Stolen lives -- National violence and male crisis discourse in Yvonne Vera's The stone virgins -- Political satire in Tess Onuweme's play No vacancy -- Reflections on Islam, identity and gender -- Islam, gender and identity in Leila Abouzeid's The last chapter : a postcolonial critique -- Strategies of representation and post/colonial identity in Farida Benlyazid's Door to the sky and Moufida Tlatli's Silences of the palace -- Islam, youth and the global : Leila Merrakshi's controversial film Marock -- Internet discourse and women as agents of change -- Debating Islam, gender and the Arab Spring : Moroccan and Tunisian women's cyberspace.

Call Number

Sc E 14-855

ISBN

9780739170410 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739170414 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739170427 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
0739170422 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013022296

OCLC

847532515

Author

Khannous, Touria, 1968- author.

Title

African pasts, presents, and futures : generational shifts in African women's literature, film, and internet discourse / Touria Khannous.

Publisher

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

After the empire : the Francophone world and postcolonial France

After the empire.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 14-855

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