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Description of  Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)

1496211898 rar 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 womens sexuality haunt contemporary postcolonial African scholarship whichby maintaining a culture of avoidance about womens sexualitygenerates 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, Read more