Arab Women's Revolutionary Art

Between Singularities and Multitudes

Nevine El Nossery (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 242 Seiten

2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-21723-4 (ISBN)

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This book examines the ways in which women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa have re-imagined revolutionary discourses through creativity and collective action as a means of resistance. Encompassing a stunning array of forms and genres, such as graffiti, street performance, photography, phototexts, novels, and comics, the book draws from a vast spectrum of artistic production in revolutionary periods between 2011 and 2022 in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. El Nossery sheds light on women's postrevolutionary artistic output by engaging an interdisciplinary approach: the book is divided into three sections which foreground the unique relationship between textual, visual, and performative modes as they intertwine with art and politics. Arab Women's Revolutionary Art thereby aims to demonstrate how art, as always oriented towards an open future, can preserve the revolutionary spirit that was sparked in 2011 by documenting what happened and determining which stories would be told. The revolution, therefore, continues.

Nevine El Nossery is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her expertise extends to Francophone and postcolonial studies, women’s writing, art and politics. She is the author of Egypt in Focus: Creativity in Adversarial Contexts (Journal of the African Literature Association, 2021); The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art (2013); and Témoignages fictionnels au féminin. Une réécriture des blancs de la guerre civile algérienne (2012).

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I Visualizing the Revolution.- Chapter 2. Bahia Shehab: The (In)visible Cairo Street Artist.- Chapter 3. Identity and Memory in Héla Ammar's Photo-Embroidery.- Part II Performing the Revolution.- Chapter 4. When Women's Bodies Speak in Public.- Chapter 5. Comics Against Taboos in Morocco.- Part III Writing The Revolution.- Chapter 6. Kaouther Adimi's Palimpsest of Revolutionary Histories.- Chapter 7. Revolutionary Art in Nomadic Spaces.- Chapter 8. Conclusion./

El Nossery s work makes a valuable contribution to the study of artivism and the creative resistance of Arab women and makes a welcome contribution . She highlights the complexities of their experiences, shedding light on how cultural, political, and social dynamics in the region shape their artistic expressions. In sum, El Nossery amplifies the narratives of those who are often marginalized, making her work an essential addition to the broader discussion of contemporary Arab art and activism. (Noha Mellor, International Journal of Communication, Vol. 19, 2025)

Erscheinungsdatum	14.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Communication, Culture, and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa
Zusatzinfo	XI, 242 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	462 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Arab revolutions • arab spring • Arab women and art • Arab women and culture • Artistic productions of Arab women • Graffiti • Women in MENA • Women's post-revolutionary art
ISBN-10	3-031-21723-3 / 3031217233
ISBN-13	978-3-031-21723-4 / 9783031217234
Zustand	Neuware