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Author Eileraas, Karina, 1971-

Title Between image and identity : transnational fantasy, symbolic violence, and feminist misrecognition / Karina Eileraas
Published Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 177 pages)
Contents Introduction : women between nations : violence and the (im)possibilities of representation -- Fantasizing the self : identifying with and against images -- Disorienting looks, ecarts d'identité : colonial photography, ownership, and identity -- Misrecognizing the family album : blood, fantasy and nationality in the works of Hélène Cixous and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha -- Dismembering the gaze : speleology and vivisection in Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia -- Final overture : of mutilation and re-membering
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Feminist theory -- Political aspects
Sex role -- Political aspects
Women -- Violence against.
Postcolonialism.
Symbolism.
Identity (Psychology)
Women authors.
Women artists.
postcolonialism.
authors.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Feminist theory -- Political aspects
Identity (Psychology)
Postcolonialism
Sex role -- Political aspects
Symbolism
Women artists
Women authors
Women -- Violence against
Feminismus
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780739152294
0739152297