Between Image and Identity: Transnational Fantasy, Symbolic Violence, and Feminist Misrecognition - Hardcover

Eileraas, Karina A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0739118110 ISBN 13: 9780739118115

Verlag: Lexington Books, 2007

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Book by Eileraas Karina A

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Críticas

In this wide-ranging transnational study of the ways in which women postcolonial writers have re-staged the relationship between image and identity, Karina Eileraas trains an exquisitely honed critical gaze on the creative forms of aesthetic and political resistance put into practice by such diverse authors as Assia Djebar, Helene Cixous, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Although her book is informed by the ideas of an impressive array of theorists, it is Eileraas's own engaging voice that, at every turn of the page, drives home the profoundly ethical dimensions of her project. -- Dana Strand, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of French and the Humanities, Carleton College

Reseña del editor

This book addresses the 'autobiographical' literature, visual, and performance art of postcolonial women from Maghreb and Southeast Asia including Leila Sebbar, Assia Djebar, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Karina Eileraas critically examines how contemporary postcolonial artists participate in the violence of representation in order to re-imagine the relationship between image and identity.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0739118110
• ISBN 13: 9780739118115
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208