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Naked Agency : Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa /

"Baring genitalia, or the threat thereof, as a form of protest has appeared with increasing frequency across sub-Saharan African countries since the 1990s. Naked agency provides a conceptual framework for reading African women's "defiant disrobing" not as a stable, singular event...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Diabate, Naminata, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: Exceptional nakedness -- Restriction -- Scene 1. Exceptional conditions and darker shades of biopolitics -- Scene 2. Dobsonville and the question of autonomy -- Co-optation -- Scene 3. Africanizing nakedness as (self- ) instrumentalization -- Scene 4. In the name of national interest -- Scene 5. Film as instrumental and interpretive lens -- Repression -- Scene 6. Secularizing genital cursing and rhetorical backlash -- Scene 7. Epistemic ignorance and menstrual rags in Paris -- Scene 8. Mis(reading) murderous reactions -- Epilogue: Defiant disrobing going viral. 
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