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African Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse
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2013
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African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African women’s cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial studies in general, and African and gender studies in particular. It examines some of the more overarching questions that are prevalent in the works of African women authors, who position themselves within the contexts of Islam, feminism, nationalism, modernity, and global and postcolonial politics, thus engaging in the construction of socio-political platforms for reform in their home countries. The book explores different aspects of women’s agency at the political, cultural, social, religious and aesthetic level, and highlights their civil society activism and push for legal reform. It also traces their opinions on a range of social and political questions and underscores fundamental shifts in their positions and concerns through the different generations.
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2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7041-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7042-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
203
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Acknowledgments No access
Theoretical Introduction No access
1 Algerian Women in the Public Sphere No access
2 Ama Ata Aidoo’s Modernism and the Politics of Postcolonialism No access
3 Rewriting Power No access
4 National Reconciliation through Narrative No access
5 National Violence and Male Crisis Discourse in Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins No access
6 Political Satire in Tess Onwueme’s Play No Vacancy No access
7 Islam, Gender, and Identity in Leila Abouzeid’s The Last Chapter No access
8 Strategies of Representation and Post/colonial Identity in Farida Benlyazid’s Door to the Sky and Moufida Tlatli’s Silences of the Palace No access
9 Islam, Youth, and the Global No access
10 Debating Islam, Gender, and the Arab Spring No access
