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04067aam a2200517 i 4500 001 07D1676C9C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190702010117 008 190125s2019 nbu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018048743 020 $a 1496211898 020 $a 9781496211897 035 $a (OCoLC)1064986292 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f------ 050 00 $a HQ1220.A35 $b C65 2019 082 00 $a 305.4096 $2 23 084 $a SOC052000 $a LIT004010 $a SOC052000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Coly, Ayo A. $e author. 245 10 $a Postcolonial hauntologies : $b African women's discourses of the female body / $c Ayo A. Coly. 264 1 $a Lincoln : $b University of Nebraska Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xi, 245 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Body image in women $z Africa. 650 0 $a Postcolonialism $z Africa. 650 0 $a Women $z Africa. 650 0 $a Imagery (Psychology) 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / African. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Body image in women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00835361 650 7 $a Imagery (Psychology) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00967541 650 7 $a Postcolonialism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01073032 650 7 $a Women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176568 651 7 $a Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239509 830 0 $a Expanding frontiers 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117011843.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190702015145.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=07D1676C9C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search