African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse
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African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African women's cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial studies in general, and African and gender studies in particular. It examines some of the more overarching questions that are prevalent in the works of African women authors, who position themselves within the contexts of Islam, feminism, nationalism, modernity, and global and postcolonial politics, thus engaging in the construction of socio-political platforms for reform in their home countries. The book explores different aspects of women's agency at the political, cultural, social, religious and aesthetic level, and highlights their civil society activism and push for legal reform. It also traces their opinions on a range of social and political questions and underscores fundamental shifts in their positions and concerns through the different generations.
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LOC Call Number
PL8010 .K47 2013
ISBN
9780739170410
Publication Date
2013
Department
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Publisher
Lexington Books
City
Lanham
Recommended Citation
Khannous, Touria, "African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse" (2013).