Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Black World Literature and Film

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Dedication
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Introduction: exploring the nexus between gendered violence and human rights
PART I: The language of violence in gendered spaces
	1 The public-ation of domestic violence in Calixthe Beyala’s Le Christ selon l’Afrique
	2 Gendered violence and narrative erasure: women in Athol Fugard’s Tsotsi and Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi
	3 Exploring the language of violence and human rights violation in selected Nigerian dramatic literature
	4 Women on the move: the construction of the woman migrant’s story in African cinema
PART II: Sexualities, cultures and exclusions
	5 “Putting her in her place!”: gender and sexual violence in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good will Come and Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
	6 Human rights in spaces of violence: exploring the intersections of gender, violence and lesbian sexuality in selected African fiction by women
	7 Gender, disruption and reconciliation in the Ugandan short fiction of Beatrice Lamwaka
PART III: Subverting stories of war
	8 Women and violence on the Algerian screen: documenting les années noires in Yasmina Bachir-Chouikh’s Rachida and Djamila Sahraoui’s Barakat! (Enough!)
	9 “A strange combination of femininity and menace”: re-thinking the figure of the female soldier in Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls
	10 Domestic violence in China Keitetsi’s Child Soldier
	11 Gendered spaces and war: fighting and narrating the Nigeria-Biafra war
PART IV: Re-reading trauma and dehumanisation
	12 Politics, narrative and subjectivities in Fanta Régina Nacro’s The Night of Truth
	13 Crime, punishment and retribution: the politics of sisterhood interrupted in Marie-Elena John’s Unburnable
	14 Male violence, the state and the dehumanisation of women in three South African novels by women
	15 “Here comes the dress”: daily resistance in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker
Index