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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements | p. ix |
Note on transliteration | p. x |
List of plates | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Contexts of production and reception | p. 3 |
Voice and vision | p. 12 |
Preliminary case study: Nawal el Saadawi | p. 17 |
Chapter outline | p. 23 |
Historical contexts: 'layer after layer' | p. 25 |
Colonialism and orientalism | p. 25 |
The Colonial Harem: reframed by Malek Alloula | p. 33 |
Fanon's 'Algeria Unveiled' and Frantz Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers | p. 36 |
Early feminism: Huda Shaarawi's Harem Years | p. 41 |
Postcolonial (neo-)patriarchies and feminisms | p. 44 |
Visibility, vision, and voice: Algerian women in question (again) | p. 48 |
Fettouma Touati, Desperate Spring | p. 49 |
Malika Mokeddem, The Forbidden Woman | p. 51 |
Assia Djebar: from Children of the New World to A Sister to Scheherazade | p. 5 |
'I am not an odalisque': Leila Sebbar's Sherazade | p. 71 |
Delacroix revisited (once more): Houria Niati's No to Torture | p. 75 |
Melancholia in the Maghrib: mother-daughter plots | p. 77 |
Leila Abouzeid, 'Year of the Elephant' | p. 79 |
Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Memory in the Flesh | p. 81 |
Moufida Tlatli, The Silences of the Palace and The Season of Men | p. 85 |
A twist in the tale: Raja Amari, Red Satin | p. 96 |
Beyond allegory? | p. 97 |
Heterotopias: reimagining home | p. 100 |
Nina Bouraoui, Forbidden Vision | p. 102 |
Fadia Faqir, Pillars of Salt | p. 105 |
Fadwa Tuqan, Mountainous Journey | p. 107 |
Raymonda Tawil, My Home, My Prison | p. 112 |
Fatima Mernissi, The Harem Within | p. 116 |
Farida Ben Lyazid, A Door to the Sky | p. 124 |
Border crossings, translations | p. 128 |
Zineb Sedira: on witnessing, translatability, and vanishing points | p. 130 |
Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distance | p. 140 |
Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love | p. 146 |
Endnotes | p. 159 |
Works cited | p. 166 |
Filmography | p. 181 |
Index | p. 182 |
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