A Scent of Jasmine from the Sea

Representations of Tunis in Villa Jasmin by Férid Boughedir and Le chant des mariées by Karin Albou

Bibliographic Data

ID23484239
AuthorsFederica Frediani (Università della Svizzera italiana, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages149-167
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueMediterranean Modernism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-58656-8_7
OpenAlexW2508879535
ISBN9781137586568
LanguageEN
References cited17

The focus of this essay is the representations of Tunis in the telefilm Villa Jasmin (Villa Jasmine) by Férid Boughedir and the film Le chant de mariées (The Wedding Song) by Karin Albou, each produced in 2008. The two films depict Tunis during the Nazi occupation from November 1942 to May 1943, rather neglected in the European and Mediterranean archives. Tunis perpetuates, through a variety of forms, the myth of a “city of peaceful coexistence”; the image of a city hovering between tradition and innovation; a “piece of land” that preserves the roots as well as the graves of those different communities scattered across the Mediterranean region. Férid Boughedir and Karin Albou offer a more complex and interesting representations of this Mediterranean city.

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Geography · Literature · Mediterranean climate · Mediterranean sea · Mythology · African history and culture studies · History · North African History and Literature · Political and Social Issues

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