Algeria Cuts

Algeria Cutsdiscusses the figure of woman, both under colonial rule in Algeria and within the postcolonial independent nation-state. It is an interdisciplinary project that spans fine art, film, colonial and legal policy, manifestos, prose fiction, and theoretical and philosophical texts concerning the relationship between France and Algeria. Khanna investigates gendered representation, identification, and justice, and in the process, calls into question the ways in which conventional disciplinary frameworks foreclose certain avenues of reflection while foregrounding others.Algeria Cutsseeks to understand Algeria and Algerian women as a philosophical site that facilitates an understanding of justice and the pursuit of feminism.

Ranjana Khanna is Associate Professor of English and Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women’s Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (2003).