Campus Units
World Languages and Cultures
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
2010
Journal or Book Title
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Volume
27
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
13
DOI
10.1080/10509200802165283
Abstract
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, when an independent, postcolonial Tunisia emerged from under French colonial rule and began to engage in “modernized” nation-building practices, questions addressing the role of Tunisian women (and more importantly their image in this “new,” postcolonial and independent society) took precedence. Many political, artistic, and intellectual figures were concerned with how Tunisian women’s images were constructed in the public eye, in the arts, and in the media. These concerns led to a variety of reformist thoughts during this nationalist movement (and even still today), but all postulations appeared to coalesce in the perceived belief in the need to construct “modern” Tunisian women’s images into a single, unifying image of motherhood.
Copyright Owner
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Copyright Date
2010
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Weber-Fève, Stacey, "Housework and Dance as Counterpoints in French-Tunisian Filmmaker Raja Amari's Satin rouge" (2010). World Languages and Cultures Publications. 166.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/language_pubs/166
Included in
African Languages and Societies Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons, Women's Studies Commons
Comments
This article is published as Weber-Feve, S.,Housework and Dance as Counterpoints in French-Tunisian Filmmaker Raja Amari’s “Satin rouge”’ in Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2010) 27.1, 1-13. Doi: 10.1080/10509200802165283. Posted with permission.