With Open Eyes: Women and African Cinema: Matatu, cartea 19

”… the ways in which women can be understood in relationship to African cinema are vast and varied, and these two recent books offer new and important perspectives on the directions those understandings have taken and will take in the future.” in: Research in African Literatures, Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring 1999

Introduction. Kenneth W. HARROW: Women and African Cinema. ARTICLES. Stephen A. ZACKS: A Problematic Sign of African Difference in Reassemblage. Suzanne H. MACRAE: The Mature and Older Women of African Film. Beti ELLERSON: The Female Body as Symbol of Change and Dichotomy: Conflicting Paradigms in the Representation of Women in African Film. Ratiba HADJ-MOUSSA: The Locus of Tension: Gender in Algerian Cinema. J.O.J. NWACHUKWU-AGBADA: Women in Igbo Language Films: The Virtuous and the Villainous. Mildred MORTIMER: Nouveau regard, nouvelle parole: le cinéma d'Assia Djebar. Madeleine BORGOMANO: Visage de femmes: lecture intertextuelle de Finzan, film de Cheikh Oumar Sissoko et du roman de Kourouma, Les Soleils des indépendances. William A. VINCENT: The Unreal but Visible Line: Difference and Desire for the Other in Chocolat. Kenneth W. HARROW: Women with Open Eyes, Women of Stone and Hammers: the Problematic Encounter between Western Feminism and African Feminist Filmmaking Practice. Nancy SCHMIDT: Sub-Saharan African Women Filmmakers: Agendas for Research. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Emilie NGO-NGUIDJOL: Focusing on Women in African Cinema: An Annotated Bibliography. CREATIVE WRITING. Taban LO LIYONG: Three Poems from The Cows of Shambat. J.B. TATI-LÉOTARD: Three Poems from Poèmes de la Mer / Poems of the Sea. INTERVIEWS. SPEAKING FOR WOMEN: Interview with Anne Mungai (Frances Harding). SARRAOUNIA: AN EPIC OF RESISTANCE. Interview with Med Hondo (Françoise Pfaff). MARKETPLACE. Obituary: In memoriam Rex Collings (James Currey). Because, Don't Forget, We Are Still Emerging. Interview with Amryl Johnson (with an appendix on her publications) (Jana Gohrisch). REVIEWS. Nadine GORDIMER: Writing and Being. (Geoffrey V. Davis) African Literature Today 20: New Trends and Generations in African Literature, eds. Eldred DUROSIMI JONES and Marjorie JONES. (Craig W. McLuckie) Mineke SCHIPPER: Source of All Evil: African Proverbs and Sayings on Women. (Thomas Brückner) Manfred F. PRINZ: Die kulturtragenden Institutionen Senegals. Zwischen kolonialem Erbe und Unabhängigkeit. (Amadou Booker Sadji) David KERR: African Popular Theatre from Pre-colonial Times to the Present Day. (Christopher Balme) Jana GOHRISCH: (Un)Belonging? Geschlecht, Klasse, Rasse und Ethnizität in der britischen Gegenwartsliteratur: Joan Rileys Romane. (Helge Nowak) ADDRESSES. Acknowledgments: Cover Photograph: Portrait of Flora M'mbungu-Schelling, courtesy Flora M'mbungu-Schelling. Poems by Taban Lo Liyong and J.B. Tati-Léotard courtesy African Books Collective, Oxford.