Arab Women's Revolutionary Art

Between Singularities and Multitudes
2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-21726-5
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: Communication, Culture, and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa

This book examines the ways in which women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa have re-imagined revolutionary discourses through creativity and collective action as a means of resistance. Encompassing a stunning array of forms and genres, such as graffiti, street performance, photography, phototexts, novels, and comics, the book draws from a vast spectrum of artistic production in revolutionary periods between 2011 and 2022 in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. El Nossery sheds light on women’s postrevolutionary artistic output by engaging an interdisciplinary approach: the book is divided into three sections which foreground the unique relationship between textual, visual, and performative modes as they intertwine with art and politics.  Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art  thereby aims to demonstrate how art, as always oriented towards an open future, can preserve the revolutionary spirit that was sparked in 2011 by documenting what happened and determining which stories would be told. The revolution, therefore, continues. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

El Nossery, Nevine

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I Visualizing the Revolution.- Chapter 2. Bahia Shehab: The (In)visible Cairo Street Artist.- Chapter 3. Identity and Memory in Héla Ammar’s Photo-Embroidery.- Part II Performing the Revolution.- Chapter 4. When Women’s Bodies Speak in Public.- Chapter 5. Comics Against Taboos in Morocco.- Part III Writing The Revolution.- Chapter 6. Kaouther Adimi’s Palimpsest of Revolutionary Histories.- Chapter 7. Revolutionary Art in Nomadic Spaces.- Chapter 8. Conclusion./

Über Autor(innen)

Nevine El Nossery is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her expertise extends to Francophone and postcolonial studies, women’s writing, art and politics. She is the author of  Egypt in Focus: Creativity in Adversarial Contexts  (co-edited volume, 2021); T he Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art  (co-edited volume, 2013);  Frictions et devenirs dans les e´critures migrantes au fe´minin  (co-edited volume, 2012); and  Te´moignages fictionnels au fe´minin. Une re´e´criture des blancs de la guerre civile alge´rienne  (2012).