Ayo A. Coly

Postcolonial Hauntologies

African Women's Discourses of the Female Body

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Produktbeschreibung

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 â hauntologyâ and â ghostly mattersâ to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as female sexuality in the art of African women.

Produktdetails

• Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781496238887
• ISBN-10: 1496238885
• Artikelnr.: 68285363

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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