With Open Eyes

Introduction. Kenneth W. HARROW: Women and African Cinema. ARTICLES. Stephen A. ZACKS: A Problematic Sign of African Difference in Reassemblage. Suzanne H. MACRAE: The Mature and Older Women of African Film. Beti ELLERSON: The Female Body as Symbol of Change and Dichotomy: Conflicting Paradigms in the Representation of Women in African Film. Ratiba HADJ-MOUSSA: The Locus of Tension: Gender in Algerian Cinema. J.O.J. NWACHUKWU-AGBADA: Women in Igbo Language Films: The Virtuous and the Villainous. Mildred MORTIMER: Nouveau regard, nouvelle parole: le cinema d'Assia Djebar. Madeleine BORGOMANO: Visage de femmes: lecture intertextuelle de Finzan, film de Cheikh Oumar Sissoko et du roman de Kourouma, Les Soleils des independances. William A. VINCENT: The Unreal but Visible Line: Difference and Desire for the Other in Chocolat. Kenneth W. HARROW: Women with Open Eyes, Women of Stone and Hammers: the Problematic Encounter between Western Feminism and African Feminist Filmmaking Practice. Nancy SCHMIDT: Sub-Saharan African Women Filmmakers: Agendas for Research. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Emilie NGO-NGUIDJOL: Focusing on Women in African Cinema: An Annotated Bibliography. CREATIVE WRITING. Taban LO LIYONG: Three Poems from The Cows of Shambat. J.B. TATI-LEOTARD: Three Poems from Poemes de la Mer / Poems of the Sea. INTERVIEWS. SPEAKING FOR WOMEN: Interview with Anne Mungai (Frances Harding). SARRAOUNIA: AN EPIC OF RESISTANCE. Interview with Med Hondo (Francoise Pfaff). MARKETPLACE. Obituary: In memoriam Rex Collings (James Currey). Because, Don't Forget, We Are Still Emerging. Interview with Amryl Johnson (with an appendix on her publications) (Jana Gohrisch). REVIEWS. Nadine GORDIMER: Writing and Being. (Geoffrey V. Davis) African Literature Today 20: New Trends and Generations in African Literature, eds. Eldred DUROSIMI JONES and Marjorie JONES. (Craig W. McLuckie) Mineke SCHIPPER: Source of All Evil: African Proverbs and Sayings on Women. (Thomas Brueckner) Manfred F. PRINZ: Die kulturtragenden Institutionen Senegals. Zwischen kolonialem Erbe und Unabhaengigkeit. (Amadou Booker Sadji) David KERR: African Popular Theatre from Pre-colonial Times to the Present Day. (Christopher Balme) Jana GOHRISCH: (Un)Belonging? Geschlecht, Klasse, Rasse und Ethnizitaet in der britischen Gegenwartsliteratur: Joan Rileys Romane. (Helge Nowak) ADDRESSES. Acknowledgments: Cover Photograph: Portrait of Flora M'mbungu-Schelling, courtesy Flora M'mbungu-Schelling. Poems by Taban Lo Liyong and J.B. Tati-Leotard courtesy African Books Collective, Oxford.