African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women&#039;s Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse

Touria Khannous

doi:10.5771/9780739170427

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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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Edition: 1/2013
Copyright Year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-7041-0
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-7042-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 203
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Theoretical Introduction No access
1. 1 Algerian Women in the Public Sphere No access
2. 2 Ama Ata Aidoo’s Modernism and the Politics of Postcolonialism No access
3. 3 Rewriting Power No access
1. 4 National Reconciliation through Narrative No access
2. 5 National Violence and Male Crisis Discourse in Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins No access
3. 6 Political Satire in Tess Onwueme’s Play No Vacancy No access
1. 7 Islam, Gender, and Identity in Leila Abouzeid’s The Last Chapter No access
2. 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
3. 9 Islam, Youth, and the Global No access
1. 10 Debating Islam, Gender, and the Arab Spring No access
Conclusion No access Pages 173 - 178
Bibliography No access Pages 179 - 194
Index No access Pages 195 - 202
About the Author No access Pages 203 - 203