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‘We All Invented Our Own Algeria’:1 Habiba Djahnine’s Letter to My Sister as Memory-Narrative
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This chapter explores how activist filmmaker Habiba Djahnine creates an Algerian memory film with her 2006 documentary Lettre à ma soeur/Letter to My Sister. It examines how Djahnine uses aspects of the performative documentary mode for personal and autobiographical explorations of Algerian history and culture, creating a personal and political memory-narrative that acts as a posthumous response to a letter written to her by her sister Nabila before her assassination on 15 February 1995 in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria. The chapter will also touch on the context of the Black Decade in Algeria and its subsequent impact on women's voices and expression, using Letter to my Sister as a case study.
Title: ‘We All Invented Our Own Algeria’:1 Habiba Djahnine’s Letter to My Sister as Memory-Narrative
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This chapter explores how activist filmmaker Habiba Djahnine creates an Algerian memory film with her 2006 documentary Lettre à ma soeur/Letter to My Sister.
It examines how Djahnine uses aspects of the performative documentary mode for personal and autobiographical explorations of Algerian history and culture, creating a personal and political memory-narrative that acts as a posthumous response to a letter written to her by her sister Nabila before her assassination on 15 February 1995 in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria.
The chapter will also touch on the context of the Black Decade in Algeria and its subsequent impact on women's voices and expression, using Letter to my Sister as a case study.
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