Postcolonial Hauntologies : African Women's Discourses of the Female Body /

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"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...

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Autor principal: Coly, Ayo A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women.
Postcolonialism.
Imagery (Psychology)
Body image in women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
imagery.
Imagerie (Psychologie)
Femmes > Afrique.
Postcolonialisme > Afrique.
Image du corps chez la femme > Afrique.
Imagery, Psychotherapy
Women > Africa.
Postcolonialism > Africa.
Body image in women > Africa.
Africa.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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"--Publisher's description
Descripción Física:1 online resource (252 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781496214898

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