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In terms of the so-called 'clash of civilisations' after '9/11', Islamic states such as Algeria have too often been perceived in the West as 'other' and hence as threatening. This book, via an analysis of cinema, provides a discussion on some misunderstandings and assumptions about Algeria, which remains to a large extent underrepresented or misrepresented in the UK media. It is about Algerian national cinema and illuminates the ways in which the official mythologising of a national culture at the 'centre' of the postcolonial state has marginalised the diverse identities within the nation.
women who worked with her, were educated by her and were traumatised by her murder. Above all, then, Lettre à ma soeur listens to the voices of the subaltern. A key theme in the interviews throughout the film is a sense of re-emergence that follows the initial insurgency of Nabila’s activism, the trauma of her killing and the subsequent years of silence and self-imposed incarceration. One of Nabila’s former colleagues, who
on his care, Burden relied on donations of food and water from the employees of the gallery (the Market Street Program, Venice, California) and his audience, who became activated as participants – as carers or as jailers – for the duration of his self-imposed incarceration. If such activation forced some audience members to rethink their ethical duty towards the artist, it also exploited their susceptibility to turn them into unpaid immaterial labourers, encouraged not to dialogue (for Burden remains mute) but to return with provisions to sustain the artist