Naminata Diabate explores how the deployment of defiant nakedness by mature women in Africa challenges longstanding assumptions about women's political agency.
Naminata Diabate explores how the deployment of defiant nakedness by mature women in Africa challenges longstanding assumptions about women's political agency.
Naminata Diabate is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University.
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Exceptional Nakedness 1 Section I. Restriction Scene 1. Exceptional Conditions and Darker Shades of Biopolitics 29 Scene 2. Dobsonville and the Question of Autonomy 43 Section II. Co-operation Scene 3. Africanizing Nakedness as (Self-)Instrumentalization 65 Scene 4. In the Name of National Interest 89 Scene 5. Film as Instrumental and Interpretive Lens 107 Section III. Repression Scene 6. Secularizing Genital Cursing and Rhetorical Backlash 131 Scene 7. Epistemic Ignorance and Menstrual Rags in Paris 149 Scene 8. Mis(Reading) Murderous Reactions 175 Epilogue: Defiant Disrobing Going Viral 191 Notes 197 References 219 Index 251
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Exceptional Nakedness 1 Section I. Restriction Scene 1. Exceptional Conditions and Darker Shades of Biopolitics 29 Scene 2. Dobsonville and the Question of Autonomy 43 Section II. Co-operation Scene 3. Africanizing Nakedness as (Self-)Instrumentalization 65 Scene 4. In the Name of National Interest 89 Scene 5. Film as Instrumental and Interpretive Lens 107 Section III. Repression Scene 6. Secularizing Genital Cursing and Rhetorical Backlash 131 Scene 7. Epistemic Ignorance and Menstrual Rags in Paris 149 Scene 8. Mis(Reading) Murderous Reactions 175 Epilogue: Defiant Disrobing Going Viral 191 Notes 197 References 219 Index 251
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