Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body
Ayo A. Coly, "Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body "
English | ISBN: 1496211898 | 2019 | 264 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 9 MB
English | ISBN: 1496211898 | 2019 | 264 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 9 MB
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,
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