Habiba Djahnine: Memory Bearer

The book explores the work of Algerian feminist documentary filmmaker Habiba Djahnine, focusing on her role as a memory-bearer and her films that give voice to her compatriots. It provides exposure to key issues in contemporary Algerian culture and history, memory, and women's and human rights. It also examines Djahnine's work as a feminist, teacher, and poet and how she transmits this locally and transnationally.

Format: Hardback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2025
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

This volume centers on the contemporary Algerian feminist documentary filmmaker Habiba Djahnine, who serves as a memory-bearer, giving voice to her compatriots and enabling them to narrate their own stories through her films. It offers valuable insights into key aspects of contemporary Algerian culture and history, including colonialism, the Algerian War, and the Black Decade of the 1990s, as well as memory and women's and human rights. The book provides a concise overview of Algerian cinema, Algerian women filmmakers, and Djahnine's oeuvre, highlighting its significance within the North African context. It delves into her work as a feminist, teacher, and poet, examining how she transmits her ideas locally and transnationally. Furthermore, the book explores how Djahnine employs the documentary film form for personal and autobiographical explorations of Algerian history, culture, memory, and trauma.

Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474440530