Gendered Spaces and Defiant Voices

ISBN-13: 9783639176803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 112 str.

Saadia Malik

Opis

This book explores musical and personal experiences of three Sudanese women performers and analyzes textual meanings of a particular type of womens songs in Sudan called "aghani al-banaat." Because there are many discourses about "womanhood", culture, and gender in Sudan, aghani al-banaat could stand as another narrative for negotiating gender/power relations and identity formation by the Sudanese women. Despite being labeled as "loose" and "bad" singing, aghani al-baanat provided a discursive space through which the Sudanese women voiced their alternative narratives of social and gender relations. It offered both a framework of negotiating the existing relations as well as a dream of improvement.The book concludes that Sudanese women, especially the pioneering performers of ex-slave descendent origin, created their own culture and popular literature in which they contextualize the past, the present, and the future of their varied realities and fantasies.

O autorze

Dr. Saadia Malik is an Assistant Professor and Head of the
Department of Mass Communication at Qatar University, Qatar. She
previously taught at Kansas University in the USA. She earned
Ph.D. in Mass Communication from Ohio University, and two
Masters from Ohio University and the Institute of Social
Studies, the Netherlands.