Norita Mdege

Cinematic Portrayals of African Women and Girls in Political Conflict

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the cinematic representations of the experiences of African women and girls in situations of political conflict.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781032469959
• ISBN-10: 1032469951
• Artikelnr.: 68473828

Autorenporträt

Norita Mdege is a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Research Fellow on the project 'WOMPOL-AFRICA: Women Politicians in Africa: War of Symbols and the Struggle for Political Legitimacy' at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She has a PhD in film studies from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her areas of interest include postcolonial studies, decolonial studies, gender studies, women and girls in Africa, youth studies, political conflict, African cinemas and cultural politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of contents
Introduction: The politics of representation: African women and girls in
films about political conflicts
Section 1: Anti-colonial conflicts
Chapter 1: Nationalism, Patriarchy and Women in Sambizanga (Maldoror 1972)
Chapter 2: Women and the postcolonial ideal in Sarraounia (Hondo1986)
Chapter 3: Women, girls and nation-building in Sarafina! (Roodt 1992)
Chapter 4: Challenging official history: Women and Girl Soldiers in Flame
(Sinclair 1996)
Chapter 5: Njinga, Queen of Angola (Graciano 2013) and the Nation-Building
Project in Angola
Section 2: Postcolonial conflicts
Chapter 6: Women's Agency, Activism and the Postcolonial Conflict in
Rachida (Bachir-Chouikh, 2002)
Chapter 7: Women and peacebuilding in La nuit de la vérité/The Night of
Truth (Nacro 2004)
Chapter 8: The Girl Soldier and [His]story in Heart of Fire
/Feuerherz(Falorni 2008)
Chapter 9: 'The cited and the uncited': Girl soldiers and the postcolonial
Conflict in War Witch (Nguyen 2012)
Chapter 10: Political conflict, feminisms and the politics of identity in
Papicha (Meddour 2019)
Conclusion: In search of decolonial feminist representations
Index