Arab, Muslim, Woman: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and FilmRoutledge, 14/05/2008 - 208 من الصفحات Given a long history of representation by others, what themes and techniques do Arab Muslim women writers, filmmakers and visual artists foreground in their presentation of postcolonial experience? Lindsey Moore’s groundbreaking book demonstrates ways in which women appropriate textual and visual modes of representation, often in cross-fertilizing ways, in challenges to Orientalist/colonialist, nationalist, Islamist, and ‘multicultural’ paradigms. She provides an accessible but theoretically-informed analysis by foregrounding tropes of vision, visibility and voice; post-nationalist melancholia and mother/daughter narratives; transformations of ‘homes and harems’; and border crossings in time, space, language, and media. In doing so, Moore moves beyond notions of speaking or looking ‘back’ to encompass a diverse feminist poetics and politics and to emphasize ethical forms of representation and reception. Aran, Muslim, Woman is distinctive in the eclectic body of work that it brings together. Discussing Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian territories, and Tunisia, as well as postcolonial Europe, Moore argues for better integration of Arab Muslim contexts in the postcolonial canon. In a book for readers interested in women's studies, history, literature, and visual media, we encounter work by Assia Djebar, Mona Hatoum, Fatima Mernissi, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Nawal el Saadawi, Leila Sebbar, Zineb Sedira, Ahdaf Soueif, Moufida Tlatli, Fadwa Tuqan, and many other women. |
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... colonial history initsclassicas wellas contemporary forms. Robert Young, too,argues thatpostcolonial studiesshould take a colonial legacy as its purview to the extent that [colonial]history has determined the configurations and power ...
... colonialism proper because itimpliesa productive crisis,'a lack ofclosure that prevents identityfrom being fully inscribed withinthe terms of tradition and modernity'thathavebeen central to colonial and nationalist discourses(Fayad 2000 ...
... Rony points out, colonial ethnography classically divided theworldinto ethnographiable 'people without history,without writing, without civilization, without technology, without archives' and the historifiable 'posited audience.
... Arab Muslim women's oppression and liberationisofmost concernto Maghribiwriters and artists who, for reasons relatedto the structures of assimilation commonto French colonialism, are steeped in a bilingual heritage (2000: 87).