{"product_id":"postcolonial-hauntologies-9781496211897","title":"Postcolonial Hauntologies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Hauntologies\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In illuminating the pervasive silence abou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Coly makes her points with minimal jargon, using numerous beautifully illustrated and carefully explained examples from literature, dress code debates, photography, videography, and performance art from all over sub-Saharan Africa. . . . Coly’s analyses of individual pieces are nuanced and sensitive to varied (and contentious) interpretive possibilities. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in African, African diaspora, postcolonial, performance, gender, queer, and sexuality studies.”—A. H. Koblitz, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“These wide-ranging examples from African women’s literature and visual and performance arts, and Ayo Coly’s extended analyses of them, copiously support her arguments concerning colonial images of African women’s bodies and sexuality, the concept of hauntology, and efforts to counter such postcolonial ‘ghosts’ from the past. \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Hauntologies\u003c\/i\u003e is a thought-provoking and extremely well-researched work.”—Elisha Renne, author of \u003ci\u003eCloth That Does Not Die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bunu Social Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This essential analysis of literature and art in a single African woman–centered study fills an urgent void. This is a book that breaks ‘the silences of African feminist criticism on the sexual female body.’ I don’t think there has been such important scholarship in African feminism since the works of Oyèwùmí and Amadiume were written ten and twenty years ago, respectively. This rare and much-needed crossover study answers an important call by going beyond literature to incorporate comparative studies of the arts at the same time.”—Cheryl Toman, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The African Female Body: From Colonial Inscription to Postcolonial Conscription\u003cbr\u003e 2. Haunted Silences: African Feminist Criticism and the Specter of Sarah Baartman\u003cbr\u003e 3. Spectral Female Sexualities: The Politics of Sexual Pleasure in Women’s Literatures\u003cbr\u003e 4. Subversive and Pedagogical Hauntologies: The Unclothed Female Body in Visual and Performance Arts\u003cbr\u003e 5. Laying Specters to Rest? On Bringing Sarah Baartman Home    \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409224048983,"sku":"9781496211897","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496211897.jpg?v=1730506023","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/postcolonial-hauntologies-9781496211897","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}