Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body Contributor(s): Coly, Ayo A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496211898 ISBN-13: 9781496211897 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Literary Criticism | African - Social Science | Media Studies |
Dewey: 305.409 |
LCCN: 2018048743 |
Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.19 lbs) 264 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - African |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |