Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's Cinema

Contents

· Acknowledgments ix Overture Maghrebi Women’s Transvergent Cinema 1 Act I Transnational Feminist Storytellers: Shahrazad, Assia, and Farida 1 Assia Djebar’s Transvergent Nuba: The Nuba of the Women of Mount Chenoua (Algeria, 1978) 43 2 Farida Benlyazid’s Initiation Narrative: A Door to the Sky (Morocco, 1988) 63 Act II Transvergent Screens 3 Yamina Bachir­Chouikh’s Transvergent Echoes: Rachida (Algeria, 2002) 91 4 Raja Amari’s Screen of the Haptic: Red Satin (Tunisia, 2002) 113 5 Nadia El Fani’s Multiple Screens: Bedwin Hacker (Tunisia, 2002) 131 Contents Act III From Dunyazad to Transvergent Audiences 6 Yasmine Kassari’s “Burning” Screens: The Sleeping Child (Morocco, 2004) 161 7 Selma Baccar’s Transvergent Spectatorship: Flower of Oblivion (Tunisia, 2006) 183 Coda 210· Appendix A: Political and Cinematic Chronology 217· Appendix B: Primary Filmography 223· Appendix C: Selected Filmography of Hiam Abbas 237· Notes 239· Bibliography 257· Index 267 ...