Naked agency: genital cursing and biopolitics in Africa

Introduction: Exceptional nakedness -- Restriction -- Scene 1. Exceptional conditions and darker shades of biopolitics -- Scene 2. Dobsonville and the question of autonomy -- Cooptation -- Scene 3. Africanizing nakedness as (self-) instrumentalization -- Scene 4. In the name of national interest --...

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Main Author: Diabate, Naminata 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2020
Series:Theory in forms
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Summary:Introduction: Exceptional nakedness -- Restriction -- Scene 1. Exceptional conditions and darker shades of biopolitics -- Scene 2. Dobsonville and the question of autonomy -- Cooptation -- Scene 3. Africanizing nakedness as (self-) instrumentalization -- Scene 4. In the name of national interest -- Scene 5. Film as instrumental and interpretive lens -- Repression -- Scene 6. Secularizing genital cursing and rhetorical backlash -- Scene 7. Epistemic ignorance and menstrual rags in Paris -- Scene 8. Murderous reactions: reading defiant disrobing -- Epilogue: Defiant disrobing going viral
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 259 pages) illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781478007579
1478007575

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