Colonial Histories, Postcolonial Memories: The Legend of the Kahina, a North African Heroine

by Abdelmajid Hannoum

No other North African legend had been adopted, transformed, and used by as many social groups as that of the Kahina myth. In this book, Abdelmajid Hannoum examines the role the myth played in what may be called an ideological conquest. Since its inception in the 9th century, the Kahina legend has provided the ideological armature for use in anticolonial struggles, North African nationalism, Berber nationalism, and Arab feminism. But the Kahina...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325002533
• ISBN13: 9780325002538
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"