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Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives
Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives explores the nature and effects of risk in self-narrative representations of life events, and is an early step towards confronting the dearth of analysis on this subject. The collection focuses on risk-taking as one of womens articulations of authorial agency displayed in literary, testimonial, photographic, travel and film documentary forms of autobiographical expression in French. Among many themes, the book fosters discussion.
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Transfigurations of the Maghreb
Through readings of some of the best-known texts in Algerian literature in French, Woodhull both challenges the separation between French and Francophone literatures and cultures in the academy and explores the ways in which “femininity” has been represented in the texts of North African and French writers since the mid-1950s.
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Violence in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Literature
African and Caribbean peoples share a history dominated by the violent disruptions of slavery and colonialism. While much has been said about these \"geographies of pain,\" violence in the private sphere, particularly gendered violence, receives little attention. This book fills that void. It is a critical addition to the study of African and Caribbean women's literatures at a time when women from these regions are actively engaged in articulating the ways in which colonial and postcolonial violence impact women.
Chantal Kalisa examines the ways in which women writers lift taboos imposed on them by their society and culture and challenge readers with their unique perspectives on violence. Comparing women from different places and times, Kalisa treats types of violence such as colonial, familial, linguistic, and war-related, specifically linked to dictatorship and genocide. She examines Caribbean writers Michele Lacrosil, Simone Schwartz-Bart, Gisèle Pineau, and Edwidge Danticat, and Africans Ken Begul, Calixthe Beyala, Nadine Bar, and Monique Ilboudo. She also includes Sembène Ousmane and Frantz Fanon for their unique contributions to the questions of violence and gender. This study advances our understanding of the attempts of African and Caribbean women writers to resolve the tension between external forms of violence and internal forms resulting from skewed cultural, social, and political rules based on gender.
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Myth of the Silent Woman
Suellen Diaconoff situates French-language texts from Moroccan women writers in a discourse of social justice and reform, arguing that they contribute to the emerging national debate on democracy and help to create new public spaces of discourse and participation.
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African Women Under Fire
African writers and literary critics must account for the changing political terrain and how these contribute to creating new sources of conflicts and aggression toward women. This book brings insight and scholarly breadth to the growing research on women, war, and conflict in Africa. The aftermath of wars and conflicts initiates new forms of violence and related gender challenges. The contributors establish compelling evidence for the significance of gender in the analyses of contemporary warfare and conflict. Articulating war's consequences for women and children remains a major challenge for critics, policy makers, and human rights organizations. There is a need for deeper understanding of the new sources of violence and male aggression on women, the gendered challenges of reintegration in the aftermath, and the future consequences of gendered violence for the African continent. This book will be useful to scholars, researchers, instructors, students of literature in the humanities, women's studies, liberal studies, African studies, etc. at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It also offers interdisciplinary utility for readers interested in literary representations of women's experience in war and conflict.
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Historicizing colonial nostalgia : European women's narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-present
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This illuminating study of European women's narratives in colonial Algeria and Kenya argues that nostalgia was not a post-colonial phenomenon but was embedded in the colonial period. Patricia M. E. Lorcin explores the distinction between imperial nostalgia, associated with the loss of power that results from the loss of empire, and colonial nostalgia, associated with loss of socio-cultural standing—in other words, loss of a certain way of life. This distinction helps to make women's discursive role an important factor in the creation of colonial nostalgia, due to their significant contribution to the establishment of a European colonial environment.
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Patricia M. E. Lorcin is an associate professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria (1995), editor of Algeria and France 1800-2000: Identity, Memory, and Nostalgia (2006), and co-editor of several collections of essays including France and its Spaces of War: Experience, Memory, Image (2009).
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Comparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century. Its central theme is women's discursive contribution to the construction of colonial nostalgia.
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PART I: 1900-1930. COLONIAL WOMEN AND THEIR IMAGINED SELVES
Women and their Colonial Worlds
Nostalgia Personified: Isabelle Eberhardt and Karen Blixen
PART II: 1920-1940. POLITICAL REALITIES AND FICTIONAL REPRESENTATIONS
Reality Expressed; Reality Imagined: Colonial Women in Twenties Algeria and Kenya
Writing and Living the Exotic [The Twenties]
Women's Fictions of Colonial Realism [The Thirties]
PART III: IMPERIAL DECLINE AND THE REFORMULATION OF NOSTALGIA
Nationalist Anger; Colonial Illusions: Women's responses to Decolonization
Happy Families, Red Strangers and 'A Vanishing Africa': Nostalgia Comes Full Circle
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Comparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century
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1) COMPARATIVE APPROACH: There are few comparative studies in the literature on this subject, while there is a plethora of work on women writers within a single colony.
2) ANALYTICALLY RICH: Lorcin avoids reductive explanations, examines the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, colonialism, and modernity.
3) NUANCED PORTRAIT: Lorcin provides a complex, not unsympathetic look at these writers, without ignoring the underlying racism or trauma of colonialism.
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Polygraphies
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Algeria's independence,Polygraphiesis significant and timely in its focus on autobiographical writings by seven of the most prominent francophone women writers from Algeria today, including Maïssa Bey, Hélène Cixous, Assia Djebar, and Malika Mokeddem. These authors witnessed both the \"before\" and \"after\" of the colonial experience in their land, and their fictional and theoretical texts testify to the lasting impact of this history. From a variety of personal perspectives and backgrounds, each writer addresses linguistic, religious, and racial issues of crucial contemporary importance in Algeria. Alison Rice engages their work from a range of disciplines, striving both to heighten our sensitivity to the plurality inherent in their texts and to move beyond a true/false dichotomy to a wealth of possible truths, all communicated in writing.
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Women writers of Gabon
Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory demonstrates how the invisibility of women (historically, politically, cross-culturally, etc.) has led to the omission of Gabon's literature from the African canon, but it also discusses in depth the unique elements of Gabonese women's writing that show it is worthy of critical recognition and that.
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