Description |
1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) |
Series |
Communication, culture, and gender in the Middle East and North Africa |
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Communication, culture, and gender in the Middle East and North Africa
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Contents |
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I Visualizing the Revolution -- Chapter 2. Bahia Shehab: The (In)visible Cairo Street Artist -- Chapter 3. Identity and Memory in Hla Ammars Photo-Embroidery -- Part II Performing the Revolution -- Chapter 4. When Womens Bodies Speak in Public -- Chapter 5. Comics Against Taboos in Morocco -- Part III Writing The Revolution -- Chapter 6. Kaouther Adimis Palimpsest of Revolutionary Histories -- Chapter 7. Revolutionary Art in Nomadic Spaces -- Chapter 8. Conclusion |
Summary |
This book examines the ways in which women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa have re-imagined revolutionary discourses through creativity and collective action as a means of resistance. Encompassing a stunning array of forms and genres, such as graffiti, street performance, photography, phototexts, novels, and comics, the book draws from a vast spectrum of artistic production in revolutionary periods between 2011 and 2022 in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. El Nossery sheds light on womens postrevolutionary artistic output by engaging an interdisciplinary approach: the book is divided into three sections which foreground the unique relationship between textual, visual, and performative modes as they intertwine with art and politics. Arab Womens Revolutionary Art thereby aims to demonstrate how art, as always oriented towards an open future, can preserve the revolutionary spirit that was sparked in 2011 by documenting what happened and determining which stories would be told. The revolution, therefore, continues. Nevine El Nossery is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her expertise extends to Francophone and postcolonial studies, womens writing, art and politics. She is the author of Egypt in Focus: Creativity in Adversarial Contexts (co-edited volume, 2021); The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art (co-edited volume, 2013); Frictions et devenirs dans les ecritures migrantes au feminin (co-edited volume, 2012); and Temoignages fictionnels au feminin. Une reecriture des blancs de la guerre civile algerienne (2012) |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Proquest, viewed July 17, 2023) |
Subject |
Art, Arab -- 21st century
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Women artists -- Arab countries
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Art and revolutions -- Arab countries
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Art and revolutions
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Art, Arab
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Women artists
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Arab countries
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
3031217241 |
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9783031217241 |
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