Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index
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
