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Between Image and Identity
Transnational Fantasy, Symbolic Violence, and Feminist Misrecognition
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2007
Summary
What does it mean to insist on the visual as a form of psychic and political violence? And how are women specifically targeted by symbolic violence during periods of war and colonization? Between Image and Identity highlights postcolonial feminist efforts to transform violence into aesthetic and political strategies of resistance. This book explores 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 these artists actively participate in the violence of representation in order to re-imagine the relationship between image and identity. By exploring the creative potentials of fantasy, alienation, and misrecognition in their work, these artists rewrite postcolonial history and re-vision the relationships between sexual politics, symbolic violence, and national memory. Between Image and Identity is a compelling and innovative book that will appeal to those interested in postcolonial and feminist studies, autobiography, visual culture, war and trauma studies.
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Edition
1/2007
Copyright Year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1812-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5229-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
177
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Women Between Nations: Violence and the (Im)possibilities of Representation No access
1 Fantasizing the Self: Identifying With and Against Images No access Pages 1 - 44
2 Disorienting Looks, Ecarts D'Identité: Colonial Photography, Ownership, and Identity No access Pages 45 - 80
3 Misrecognizing the Family Album: Blood, Fantasy, and Nationality in the Works of Helene Cixous and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha No access Pages 81 - 122
4 Dismembering the Gaze: Speleology and Vivisection in Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia No access Pages 123 - 156
Final Overture: Of Mutilation and Re-membering No access Pages 157 - 160
