Overview
- Problematizes the conception of art in relation to the ongoing political and social transformations in the Arab world
- Offers a comparative analysis of women’s contributions to the artistic production of multiple revolutionary spaces
- Draws on original texts & interviews with artists to better understand the close relationship between art and politics
Part of the book series: Communication, Culture, and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa (CCGMENA)
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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.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Visualizing the Revolution
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Performing the Revolution
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Writing The Revolution
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Reviews
“The Arab Revolutions invariably failed to cause democratic transformation, but they triggered significant changes in the social, cultural, and artistic domains. Nevine El Nossery’s important book highlights the ‘artistic revolution’ championed by women who brought creative works-- graffiti, street performance, photography, photo-texts, and comics-- to bear on defying illegitimate power and extend the horizon of emancipatory politics.” —Asef Bayat, Catherine & Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and transnational Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
“A highly original and compelling evaluation of women’s participation in redefining the public sphere in post-2010 Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria and Morocco through art. Exploring an impressive range of artists and art forms, including literature, comics, graffiti and street performance, El Nossery’s rich analysis demonstrates the innovative ways in which women are using their work to call for a drasticimprovement of social, political and cultural conditions.”
—Siobhán Shilton, Professor of French Studies and the Visual Arts, University of Bristol.
“This is a fresh re-visit of the results of the Arab uprisings with a focus on women’s arts to highlight the power of feminist revolutionary consciousness. Rather than dismembering the artistic expression through the taxonomy of genre or nationality, this book reads the artistic scene transnationally. Re-visiting a past Utopia culturally is urgently needed to stand up to the rising Right-wing backlash against women.”
—Shereen Abouelnaga, author of Women in Revolutionary Egypt.
“A highly original and compelling evaluation of women’s participation in redefining the public sphere in post-2010 Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria and Morocco through art. Exploring an impressive range of artists and art forms, including literature, comics, graffiti and street performance, El Nossery’s rich analysis demonstrates the innovative ways in which women are using their work to call for a drasticimprovement of social, political and cultural conditions.”
—Siobhán Shilton, Professor of French Studies and the Visual Arts, University of Bristol.
“This is a fresh re-visit of the results of the Arab uprisings with a focus on women’s arts to highlight the power of feminist revolutionary consciousness. Rather than dismembering the artistic expression through the taxonomy of genre or nationality, this book reads the artistic scene transnationally. Re-visiting a past Utopia culturally is urgently needed to stand up to the rising Right-wing backlash against women.”
—Shereen Abouelnaga, author of Women in Revolutionary Egypt.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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 (co-edited volume, 2021); The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art (co-edited volume, 2013); Frictions et devenirs dans les écritures migrantes au féminin (co-edited volume, 2012); and Témoignages fictionnels au féminin. Une réécriture des blancs de la guerre civile algérienne (2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Arab Women's Revolutionary Art
Book Subtitle: Between Singularities and Multitudes
Authors: Nevine El Nossery
Series Title: Communication, Culture, and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21724-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21723-4Published: 13 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21726-5Published: 13 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-21724-1Published: 12 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-4531
Series E-ISSN: 2524-454X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 242
Topics: Middle Eastern Culture, African Culture, Media and Communication, Arts, Comics Studies