Re-hybridizing Transnational Domesticity and Femininity - Women s Contemporary Filmmaking Lifewriting in France, Algeria,

In iRe-hybridizing Transnational Domesticity and Femininity, the book discusses some of the ways in which contemporary French, Algerian, and Tunisian women filmmakers and writers use the home and homemaking acts in their narratives to challenge traditional cinematic and literary representations of women and uncover new transnational ways of seeing, knowing, and being female in their representative societies and cultures.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Interrogating and Re-hybridizing the Personal Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Making Home with Assia Djebar: Destablizing the Center(s) Chapter 3 Chapter 2: (Re)Displaying Femininity and Home iwth Annie Ernaux and Simone de Beauvoir Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Creating Domestic Landscapes and Soundscapes with Raja Amari and Coline Serreau Chapter 5 Chapter 4: (Re)Presenting Female Iconography at HOme iwth Leila Sebbar and Yamina Benguigui Chapter 6 Conclusion: 2/3 Spaces: Home, Nation, Gender, Self-Other

About the author

Stacey Weber-Feve is assistant professor of French in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Iowa State University.

Product details

• Authors: Stacey Weber-Feve, Stacey Weber-F�ve
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 28.02.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9780739134511
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-3451-1
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France; After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV