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Gendered Spaces and Defiant Voices. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, June 2009, Pages: 116
This book explores musical and personal experiences of three Sudanese women performers and analyzes textual meanings of a particular type of women's songs in Sudan called “aghani al-banaat.” Because there are many discourses about “womanhood”, culture, and gender in Sudan, aghani al-banaat could stand as another narrative for negotiating gender/power relations and identity formation by the Sudanese women. Despite being labeled as “loose” and “bad” singing, aghani al-baanat provided a discursive space through which the Sudanese women voiced their alternative narratives of social and gender relations. It offered both a framework of negotiating the existing relations as well as a dream of improvement.The book concludes that Sudanese women, especially the pioneering performers of ex-slave descendent origin, created their own culture and popular literature in which they contextualize the past, the present, and the future of their varied realities and fantasies.
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