Algeria Cuts discusses the figure of woman, both under colonial rule in Algeria and within the postcolonial independent nation-state. It is an interdisciplinary project that spans fine art, film, co
Khanna (English and women's studies, Duke U.) analyzes the representation of Algerian women in literature, the arts, film, colonial and legal policy, manifestos, prose fiction, and in theoretical and
Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a “dark continent” for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While th
