Aviva Briefel (Maine Bowdoin College)

The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The hands of colonized subjects were vital sites of fascination and interpretation in late-Victorian imperial narratives. The book considers accounts of fingerprinting, amputation, disease, manual labor, and mummification as central examples of the racial significance assigned to hands around the fin de sià cle.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781107538917
• ISBN-10: 1107538912
• Artikelnr.: 48809050

Autorenporträt

Aviva Briefel is Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College, Maine. She is the author of The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (2006) and the co-editor of Horror after 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The case of the blank hand: race and manual legibility
2. Potters and prosthetics: putting Indian hands to work
3. The mummy's hand: art and evolution
4. A hand for a hand: punishment, responsibility, and imperial desire
5. Crimes of the hand: manual violence and the Congo
Coda
Bibliography.