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Informationen zum Autor Florence Martin is Professor of French and Francophone Literature and Cinema at Goucher College and Associate Editor of Studies in French Cinema. She is author of Bessie Smith, of De la Guyane à la diaspora africaine (with Isabelle Favre), and of A vous de voir! (with Maryse Fauvel and Stéphanie Martin). Klappentext These are distinctive films that traverse multiple cultures, both borrowing from and resisting the discourses these cultures propose. Zusammenfassung Discusses the cinematic vision of North African women's directors Inhaltsverzeichnis Overture: Maghrebi Women's Transvergent Cinema Act I: Transnational Feminist Storytellers: Shahrazad, Assia, and Farida 1. Assia Djebar's Transvergent Narrative in The Nuba of the Women of Mount Chenoua (Algeria, 1978) 2. Farida Benlyazid's Initiated Audiences in A Door to the Sky (Morocco, 1998) Act II: Screens & Veils 3. Yamina Bachir-Chouikh's Transvergent Echoes in Rachida (Algeria, 2002) 4. Raja Amari's Screen of the Haptic in Red Satin (Tunisia, 2002) 5. Nadia El Fani's Multiple Screens and Veils in Bedwin Hacke r (Tunisia, 2002) Act III: From Dunyazad to Transvergent Audiences 6. Yasmina Kassari's "Burning" Screens in The Sleeping Child (Morocco, 2004) 7. Selma Baccar's Transvergent Spectatorship in Khochkhach (Tunisia, 2006) Coda Appendix A: Political and Cinematic Chronology Appendix B: Primary Filmography Bibliography
