Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4155485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lamia Ben Youssef |
| FAMILY NAME | Zayzafoon |
| SIGNATURE | ZAYZAFOON L B Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching About Women and Islam in North Africa: Integrating Postcolonial Feminist Theory in the Classroom
Using postcolonial feminist theory, the researcher attempts in this article to redefine the interpretive framework through which courses on Islam and North African women are being taught in American undergraduate classes. Several conceptual limitations have been identified: inadequate knowledge of the geography and history of North Africa; the discursive dichotomy between East and West; the production of the Muslim woman as a single category; the…
Memory as allegory: The spectre of incest and the (re)naming of the father in Moufida Tlatli's The Silences of the Palace (1994)
In this paper I argue that Tlatli's Silences of the Palace is a political allegory that resists both Eurocentric feminism and the discourse of Tunisian nationalism. Through the metaphor of incest, points of scream, and the narrative structure, Tlatli reveals how women are oppressed from without and within. I examine three historical contexts in which the exchange of women takes place in the film: A Biblical/Qur'anic time in which Sarah gives Haga…
The violence of remembering and forgetting: Gender, nation and narration in the aesthetic reception of Dido/Elissa
This article examines the representation of Dido/Elissa in Tunisian literature and nationalism and the literary, visual and performing arts of the West. This study has three central arguments. The first holds that the myth of Dido has served in these various discourses as an aesthetic tool to discuss expanding empires and state hegemony as well as gender, racial and national identity. The second claim this study makes is that all discourses on Di…
Teaching About Women and Islam in North Africa: Integrating Postcolonial Feminist Theory in the Classroom
Using postcolonial feminist theory, the researcher attempts in this article to redefine the interpretive framework through which courses on Islam and North African women are being taught in American undergraduate classes. Several conceptual limitations have been identified: inadequate knowledge of the geography and history of North Africa; the discursive dichotomy between East and West; the production of the Muslim woman as a single category; the…
The violence of remembering and forgetting: Gender, nation and narration in the aesthetic reception of Dido/Elissa
This article examines the representation of Dido/Elissa in Tunisian literature and nationalism and the literary, visual and performing arts of the West. This study has three central arguments. The first holds that the myth of Dido has served in these various discourses as an aesthetic tool to discuss expanding empires and state hegemony as well as gender, racial and national identity. The second claim this study makes is that all discourses on Di…
The violence of remembering and forgetting: Gender, nation and narration in the aesthetic reception of Dido/Elissa
This article examines the representation of Dido/Elissa in Tunisian literature and nationalism and the literary, visual and performing arts of the West. This study has three central arguments. The first holds that the myth of Dido has served in these various discourses as an aesthetic tool to discuss expanding empires and state hegemony as well as gender, racial and national identity. The second claim this study makes is that all discourses on Di…
Memory as allegory: The spectre of incest and the (re)naming of the father in Moufida Tlatli's The Silences of the Palace (1994)
In this paper I argue that Tlatli's Silences of the Palace is a political allegory that resists both Eurocentric feminism and the discourse of Tunisian nationalism. Through the metaphor of incest, points of scream, and the narrative structure, Tlatli reveals how women are oppressed from without and within. I examine three historical contexts in which the exchange of women takes place in the film: A Biblical/Qur'anic time in which Sarah gives Haga…
Teaching About Women and Islam in North Africa: Integrating Postcolonial Feminist Theory in the Classroom
Using postcolonial feminist theory, the researcher attempts in this article to redefine the interpretive framework through which courses on Islam and North African women are being taught in American undergraduate classes. Several conceptual limitations have been identified: inadequate knowledge of the geography and history of North Africa; the discursive dichotomy between East and West; the production of the Muslim woman as a single category; the…
Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)