Gendered Spaces and Defiant Voices
Saadia Malik
Broschiertes Buch

Gendered Spaces and Defiant Voices

A Postcolonial Ethnographic Perspective on Sudanese Women's Performance, Communication,and Popular Culture

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This book explores musical and personal experiences of three Sudanese women performers and analyzes textual meanings of a particular type of women s songs in Sudan called aghani al-banaat. Because there are many discourses about womanhood , culture, and gender in Sudan, aghani al-banaat could stand as another narrative for negotiating gender/power relations and identity formation by the Sudanese women. Despite being labeled as loose and bad singing, aghani al-baanat provided a discursive space through which the Sudanese women voiced their alternative narratives of social and gender relations. ...