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

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 concepts of “hauntology” and “ghostly matters” to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as female sexuality in the art of African women.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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 concepts of “hauntology” and “ghostly matters” to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as female sexuality in the art of African women.

Product details

• Authors: Ayo A Coly, Ayo A. Coly
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781496238887
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-3888-7
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: 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