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