Le Cinéma de l‘urgence: Revisiting Yamina Bachir-Chouikh‘s Rachida and Djamila Sahraoui‘s Barakat!

Authors

  • Christa Jones

Abstract

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Author Biography

Christa Jones

Christa Jones holds a Ph.D. in French Literature from Washington University in St. Louis (2006) and is currently an Associate Professor of French at Utah State University. She is the author of Cave Culture in Maghrebi Literature: Imagining Self and Nation (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012, part of the “After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France” series). She has published numerous book chapters and articles on postcolonial Francophone North African cinema, literature, and music in journals such as Al-Raida, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Dalhousie French Studies, Expressions maghrébines, Francofonia, French Review, MIFLC Review, Nouvelles Études Francophones, and Women‘s Studies Quarterly. Her most recent book chapter on the hammam appeared in Penser le corps au Maghreb (ed. Monia Lachheb, Paris: Karthala/Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain, 2012). She is currently co-editing a book titled New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales, which is under contract at the University Press of Colorado.