Titlebook: Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Films; Delphine Letort,Benaouda Lebdai Book 2018 The Editor(s

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Biographical Motion Pictures and the Resuscitation of “Real Lives”e retraces the hagiographic trend of the genre to “Jesus movies” whose symbolical use of Christic light has been appropriated to dignify secular figures. Referring to the adaptation of cinemagician Georges Méliès’s adaptation of . (1900), the essay also posits that key events in the lives of the med

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“Negro Girl (meager)”: Black Women’s In/Visibility in Contemporary Films About Slaveryack historical figure, the films . (2013, directed by Steve McQueen) and . (2013, directed by Amma Asante) are notable for their black directors and their portrayals of eighteenth and nineteenth-century British and American black slave histories. However, the films’ approaches to the representation

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Does One Need to Be a Man to Be a Great Man? that the power of “great men” tends to gender history as female. Biopics, in particular, submit history to certain individuals and raise some individuals to historical status. Does the making of “great men” undermine grand history?

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Winnie Madikizela Mandela: The Construction of a South African Political Iconla to take political action, this essay retraces the construction of the woman’s image as a political icon. Her books portray a woman who has developed her charisma independently of her husband Nelson Mandela, showing how her political views matured and her personal political consciousness evolved.

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“Revoluting” or Writing? Ahdaf Soueif and the 2011 Egyptian Revolutiontion, Soueif tries to articulate activism and writing and to come to terms with her role as an artist in critical times. Soueif attempts to define a literary strategy that allows her to convey the immediacy of the events, while finding the right balance to give them a more universal dimension.

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