Diabate Naminata Diabate

Naked Agency (eBook, PDF)

Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Across Africa, mature women have for decades mobilized the power of their nakedness in political protest to shame and punish male adversaries. This insurrectionary nakedness, often called genital cursing, owes its cultural potency to the religious belief that spirits residing in women's bodies can be unleashed to cause misfortune in their targets, including impotence, disease, and death. In Naked Agency, Naminata Diabate analyzes these collective female naked protests in Africa and beyond to broaden understandings of agency and vulnerability. Drawing on myriad cultural texts from social media and film to journalism and fiction, Diabate uncovers how women create spaces of resistance during socio-political duress, including such events as the 2011 protests by Ivoirian women in Cote d'Ivoire and Paris as well as women's disrobing in Soweto to prevent the destruction of their homes. Through the concept of naked agency, Diabate explores fluctuating narratives of power and victimhood to challenge simplistic accounts of African women's helplessness and to show how they exercise political power in the biopolitical era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478007579
• Artikelnr.: 66282535

Autorenporträt

Naminata Diabate is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

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