Feminist Review - Issue 104

Informationen zum Autor Edited by the Feminist Review Collective Klappentext The 'Affect and Creolisation' Feminist Review Special Issue addresses questions concerning the legacy of plantation culture, focusing on its shaping of a gendered creolisation and affect. The essays consider ways in which creole textualisation allows for an enlarged discussion of the Creole transnational, including an interrogation of gendered bodily affectivity and agency. The issue raises questions about women's bodies: are Creole women's bodies haunted by memories and legacies of a traumatic history of Atlantic slavery and what meanings does this past hold for the present? In their interrogation of the gendered legacy of the plantation, this collection of essays invigorates feminist theorising of the affective. Zusammenfassung The 'Affect and Creolisation' Feminist Review Special Issue addresses questions concerning the legacy of plantation culture, focusing on its shaping of a gendered creolisation and affect. The essays consider ways in which creole textualisation allows for an enlarged discussion of the Creole transnational, including an interrogation of gendered bodily affectivity and agency. The issue raises questions about women's bodies: are Creole women's bodies haunted by memories and legacies of a traumatic history of Atlantic slavery and what meanings does this past hold for the present? In their interrogation of the gendered legacy of the plantation, this collection of essays invigorates feminist theorising of the affective.

Product details

• Authors: Feminist Review Coll, NA NA
• Assisted by: N NA (Editor), NA NA (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2013
• EAN: 9781137374455
• ISBN: 978-1-137-37445-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Feminist Review; Feminist Review
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Management, B, Feminism, Business and Management, Tourism, Feminism & feminist theory, Industries, Tourism Management, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Management science, Affect;culture;feminism;gender;production