Algeria cuts : women and representation, 1830 to the present / Ranjana Khanna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khanna, Ranjana, 1966-

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--Algeria.

Women.

Women--Political activity.

Women's rights.

History.

Algeria.

Women--Algeria--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Women's rights--Algeria--History.

Physical Description:

xx, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2008]

Summary:

Algeria Cuts discusses the figure of woman, both under colonial rule in Algeria and within the postcolonial independent nation-state. It is an interdisciplinary project that spans fine art, film, colonial and legal policy, manifestos, prose fiction, and theoretical and philosophical texts concerning the relationship between France and Algeria. Khanna investigates gendered representation, identification, and justice, and in the process calls into question the ways in which conventional disciplinary frameworks foreclose certain avenues of reflection while foregrounding others. Algeria Cuts seeks to understand Algeria and Algerian women as a philosophical site that facilitates an understanding of justice and the pursuit of feminism.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction : the living dead

Theorizing justice

Frames, contexts, community, justice

The experience of evidence : language, the law, and the mockery of justice

Melancholic remainders

The battle of Algiers and the Nouba of the women : from third to fourth cinema

Women of Algiers in their apartment : trauma, melancholia, and nationalism

Algeria beyond itself

Latent ghosts and the manifesto : baya, breton, and reading for the future

"Araby" (dubliners) and a sister to scheherazade : women's time and the time of the nation

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-293) and index.

ISBN:

9780804752619

0804752613

9780804752626

0804752621

OCLC:

147988405