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Postcolonial hauntologies : African women's discourses of the female body / Ayo A. Coly.
Author
Coly, Ayo A.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Description
xi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HQ1220.A35 C65 2019
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Body image in women
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Africa
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Postcolonialism
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Africa
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Women
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Africa
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Imagery (Psychology)
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Series
Expanding frontiers
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Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
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Summary note
"Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial representations of African women's sexuality "haunt" contemporary postcolonial African scholarship which, by maintaining a culture of avoidance about women's sexuality, generates a discursive conscription that ultimately holds the female body hostage. Ayo A. Coly employs the concept of "hauntology" and "ghostly matters" to formulate an explicative framework in which to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as a theoretical framework for discerning the elusive and cautious presences of female sexuality in the texts of African women. In illuminating the pervasive silence about the sexual female body in postcolonial African scholarship, Postcolonial Hauntologies challenges hostile responses to critical and artistic voices that suggest the African female body represents sacred ideological-discursive ground on which one treads carefully, if at all. Coly demonstrates how "ghosts" from the colonial past are countered by discursive engagements with explicit representations of women's sexuality and bodies that emphasize African women's power and autonomy."-- Provided by publisher.
"Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. Ayo A. Coly employs the concept of "hauntology" to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as female sexuality in the art of African women"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and index.
Contents
The African female body: from colonial inscription to postcolonial conscription
Haunted silences: African feminist criticism and the specter of Sarah Baartman
Spectral female sexualities: the politics of sexual pleasure in women's literatures
Subversive and pedagogical hauntologies: the unclothed female body in visual and performance arts
Laying specters to rest? On bringing Sarah Baartman home.
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9781496211897 ((hardback))
1496211898
LCCN
2018048743
OCLC
1064986292
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