Arab Women's Revolutionary Art: Between Singularities and Multitudes

By Nevine El Nossery

This book examines the ways in which women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa have re-imagined revolutionary discourses by galvanizing creativity as a means of resistance, collective action, and change. It shows how women's post-revolutionary artistic output encompasses a stunning array of forms and genres, such as graffiti, street performance, photography, phototexts, novels, and comics. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon a vast spectrum of productions from different revolutionary periods and spaces between 2011 and 2022 (Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria), the book is divided into three parts which foreground the unique relationship between textual, visual and performative modes as they engage art and politics. The book thereby demonstrates how art, as a complex process that is always oriented towards an open future, can preserve the revolutionary soul that was sparked in 2011 by documenting what happened and what stories would be told. The revolution, therefore, continues.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031217233
• ISBN13: 9783031217234
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"