Postcolonial Hauntologies : African Women's Discourses of the Female Body

Ayo A. Coly

ISBN 10: 1496238885 / ISBN 13: 9781496238887

Edité par University Of Nebraska Press Jun 2024, 2024

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Neuware - 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 concepts 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.

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• Titre: Postcolonial Hauntologies : African Women's Discourses of the Female Body
• Éditeur: University Of Nebraska Press Jun 2024
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1496238885
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781496238887
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 151 H x 18 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 151 millimètres de hauteur par 18 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 404 grammes

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Synopsis

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 concepts 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.

À propos de l'auteur

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.