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Informationen zum Autor Touria Khannous is an Assistant Professor in the department of Foreign Languages and the International Studies program at Louisiana State University. She has published articles on women's writing from Africa and the African diaspora, African cinema, Black Diaspora Studies and Cultural Studies. Klappentext 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 national and global politics. In this remarkable study, Touria Khannous brings together the work of African women from different generations and various locations in order to shed light on the ways in which they have challenged social and political situations in their countries through written and cinematic creations. This wide-ranging and well-organized book provides unprecedented insight into African women's literary and cultural creativity in evolving postcolonial contexts, focusing especially on questions of gender and religious identity. It is especially noteworthy for its analysis of recent expressions by African women over the Internet, especially during the Arab Spring. -- Alison Rice, University of Notre Dame Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsTheoretical IntroductionPart I: Negotiating Colonial and National PoliticsChapter 1 Algerian Women in the Public Sphere: Remaking / Her / Story in Assia Djebar's Film La Nouba des Femmes du Mont ChenouaChapter 2 Ama Ata Aidoo's Modernism and the Politics of PostcolonialismChapter 3 Rewriting Power: Bessie Head's Revolutionary PoliticsPart II: Postcolonial InjusticesChapter 4 National Reconciliation through Narrative: Malika Oufkir's Stolen LivesChapter 5 National Violence and Male Crisis Discourse in Yvonne Vera's The Stone VirginsChapter 6 Political Satire in Tess Onuweme's Play No VacancyPart III: Reflections on Islam, Identity and GenderChapter 7 Islam, Gender and Identity in Leila Abouzeid's The Last Chapter: A Postcolonial CritiqueChapter 8 Strategies of Representation and Post/colonial Identity in Farida Benlyazid's Door to the Sky and Moufida Tlatli's Silences of the PalaceChapter 9 Islam, Youth and the Global: Leila Merrakshi's Controversial Film MarockPart IV: Internet Discourse and Women as Agents of ChangeChapter 10 Debating Islam, Gender and the Arab Spring: Moroccan and Tunisian Women's CyberspaceConclusionBibliography/Filmography...
