Research Catalog

Title

Postcolonial hauntologies : African women's discourses of the female body / Ayo A. Coly.

Author

Coly, Ayo A.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

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Details

Description

xi, 245 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• "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. In illuminating the pervasive silence about the sexual female body in postcolonial African scholarship, Postcolonial Hauntologies challenges hostile responses to critical and artistic voices that suggest the African female body represents sacred ideological-discursive ground on which one treads carefully, if at all. Coly demonstrates how "ghosts" from the colonial past are countered by discursive engagements with explicit representations of women's sexuality and bodies that emphasize African women's power and autonomy."--
• "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 concept of "hauntology" to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as female sexuality in the art of African women"--

Series Statement

Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality

Uniform Title

Expanding frontiers.

Subject

• Body image in women > Africa
• Postcolonialism > Africa
• Women > Africa
• Imagery (Psychology)
• Body image in women
• Postcolonialism
• Women
• Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

Sc E 19-1287

ISBN

• 9781496211897
• 1496211898
• 9781496214874 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781496214881 (mobi) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781496214898 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018048743

OCLC

1064986292

Author

Coly, Ayo A., author.

Title

Postcolonial hauntologies : African women's discourses of the female body / Ayo A. Coly.

Publisher

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality

Expanding frontiers.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-1287