Postcolonial Hauntologies - African Women''s Discourses of the Female Body

Informationen zum Autor Ayo A. Coly is an associate professor of comparative literature and African studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures. Klappentext Ayo A. Coly is an associate professor of comparative literature and African studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of¿The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures. ¿ ¿ Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The African Female Body: From Colonial Inscription to Postcolonial Conscription 2. Haunted Silences: African Feminist Criticism and the Specter of Sarah Baartman 3. Spectral Female Sexualities: The Politics of Sexual Pleasure in Women’s Literatures 4. Subversive and Pedagogical Hauntologies: The Unclothed Female Body in Visual and Performance Arts 5. Laying Specters to Rest? On Bringing Sarah Baartman Home     Conclusion Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: Ayo A Coly, Ayo A. Coly
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781496211897
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-1189-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories