African pasts, presents, and futures: generational shifts in African women's literature, film, and internet discourse

Theoretical introduction

Negotiating colonial and national politics

Algerian women in the public sphere: remaking herStory in Assia Djebar's film La Nouba des Femmes du Mont Chenoua

Ama ata Aidoo's modernism and the politics of postcolonialism

Rewriting power : Bessie Head's revolutionary politics

Postcolonial injustices

National reconciliation through narrative : Malika Oufkir's Stolen lives

National violence and male crisis discourse in Yvonne Vera's The stone virgins

Political satire in Tess Onuweme's play No vacancy

Reflections on Islam, identity and gender

Islam, gender and identity in Leila Abouzeid's The last chapter : a postcolonial critique

Strategies of representation and post/colonial identity in Farida Benlyazid's Door to the sky and Moufida Tlatli's Silences of the palace

Islam, youth and the global : Leila Merrakshi's controversial film Marock

Internet discourse and women as agents of change

Debating Islam, gender and the Arab Spring : Moroccan and Tunisian women's cyberspace.

Theoretical introduction

Negotiating colonial and national politics

Algerian women in the public sphere: remaking herStory in Assia Djebar's film La Nouba des Femmes du Mont Chenoua

Ama ata Aidoo's modernism and the politics of postcolonialism

Rewriting power : Bessie Head's revolutionary politics

Postcolonial injustices

National reconciliation through narrative : Malika Oufkir's Stolen lives

National violence and male crisis discourse in Yvonne Vera's The stone virgins

Political satire in Tess Onuweme's play No vacancy

Reflections on Islam, identity and gender

Islam, gender and identity in Leila Abouzeid's The last chapter : a postcolonial critique

Strategies of representation and post/colonial identity in Farida Benlyazid's Door to the sky and Moufida Tlatli's Silences of the palace

Islam, youth and the global : Leila Merrakshi's controversial film Marock

Internet discourse and women as agents of change

Debating Islam, gender and the Arab Spring : Moroccan and Tunisian women's cyberspace.