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Cinematic Portrayals of African Women and Girls in Political Conflict

Autor Norita Mdege
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 ian 2025
This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the cinematic representations of the experiences of African women and girls in situations of political conflict.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032482781
ISBN-10: 1032482788
Pagini: 244
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Taylor & Francis Ltd.

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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
 
 
 

Notă biografică

Norita Mdege is a Marie Skłodowska-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.