| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 203 pages) |
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After the empire : the Francophone world and postcolonial France |
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After the empire.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, critically reevaluates assumptions in liberal feminist theory, which has examined African women primarily in terms of their object status rather than as agents effecting change. By analyzing forces of marginalization, subordination and empowerment, the book carves out arenas for African women within feminist theory and creates spaces for the recognition of their place in nationa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
African literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
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Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 21st century
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Motion pictures -- Africa.
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Women motion picture producers and directors -- Africa
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Internet -- Social aspects -- Africa
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Internet and women -- Africa
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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African literature -- Women authors
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Internet and women
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Internet -- Social aspects
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Motion pictures
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Women and literature
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Women motion picture producers and directors
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021675681 |
| ISBN |
9780739170427 |
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0739170422 |
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