The most recent issue of *Matatu* has just appeared. It was
a special issue on Women and African Cinema, and is titled
"With Open Eyes: Women and African Cinema."
The table of contents is the following:
--Kenneth Harrow, "Introduction"
--Stephen Zacks, "A Problematic Sign of Difference in
*Reassemblage*"
--Beti Ellerson, "The Female Body as Symbol of Change and
Dichotomy: Conflicting Paradigms in the Representation of
Women in African Film"
--Ratiba Hadj-Moussa: "The Locus of Tension: Gender in
Algerian Cinema"
--J.O.J.Nwachukwu-Agbada, "Women in Igbo Language Films"
--Mildred Mortimer, "Nouveau Regard, nouvelle parole: le
cinema d'Assia Djebar"
--Madeleine Borgomano, "Visage de femmes: lecture
intertextuelle de *Finzan* et *Les Soleils des
independances*"
--William Vincent, "The Unreal Yet Visible Line: Difference
and Desire for the Other in *Chocolat*"
--Kenneth W. Harrow, "Women with Open Eyes, Women of Stone
and Hammers: The Problematic Encounter between Western
Feminism and African Feminist Filmmaking Practice"
--Nancy Schmidt, "Sub-Saharan African Women Filmmakers:
Agendas for Research. Bibliography"
--Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol, "Focusing on Women in African Cinema:
An Annotated Bibliography"
Creative Writing: Three poems by Taban Lo Liyong and three
poems by J.B. Tati-Leotard
Interviews:
--SPEAKING FOR WOMEN: Interview with Anne Mungai (Frances
Harding)
--*Sarraounia*: An Epic of Resistance. Interview with Med
Hondo (Francoise Pfaff)
Reviews, etc.
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