Algeria cuts : women and representation, 1830 to the present / Ranjana Khanna.

Author/creator Khanna, Ranjana, 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxx, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Women--Algeria. --Political activity.
Women--Algeria. --Social conditions.
Women's rights--Algeria. --History.

SeriesCultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present. ^A403800
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : the living dead -- Theorizing justice -- Frames, contexts, community, justice -- The experience of evidence : language, the law, and the mockery of justice -- Melancholic remainders -- The battle of Algiers and the Nouba of the women : from third to fourth cinema -- Women of Algiers in their apartment : trauma, melancholia, and nationalism -- Algeria beyond itself -- Latent ghosts and the manifesto : baya, breton, and reading for the future -- "Araby" (dubliners) and a sister to scheherazade : women's time and the time of the nation -- Afterword.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-293) and index.
LCCN 2007026788
ISBN9780804752619 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0804752613 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780804752626 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0804752621 (pbk. : alk. paper)