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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:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xxv, 203 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Africa--History--20th century.
Women and literature--Africa--History--21st century.
Motion pictures--Africa.
Women motion picture producers and directors--Africa.
Internet--Social aspects--Africa.
Internet and women--Africa.
African literature--Women authors.
Internet and women.
Internet--Social aspects.
Motion pictures.
Women and literature.
Women motion picture producers and directors.
Africa.
1900 - 2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

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

Contents:

Debating Islam, gender and the Arab Spring : Moroccan and Tunisian women's cyberspace. 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.

Series:

After the empire : the Francophone world and postcolonial France

ISBN:

0739170414 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739170410 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)847532515

LCCN:

2013022296

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)