Naked agency : genital cursing and biopolitics in Africa / Naminata Diabate.
Diabate, Naminata, 1973- author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2020
BJ1500.N8 D533 2020
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Title Naked agency : genital cursing and biopolitics in Africa / Naminata Diabate.
Author Diabate, Naminata, 1973- author.
ISBN 9781478007579 (electronic book)
1478007575 (electronic book)
9781478006152
1478006153
9781478006886
1478006889
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages)
Call Number BJ1500.N8 D533 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 391/.20967
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2020).
Added Corporate Author ProQuest (Firm)
Series Theory in forms.
Available in Other Form Naked agency
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Introduction: Exceptional nakedness
Restriction
Scene 1. Exceptional conditions and darker shades of biopolitics
Scene 2. Dobsonville and the question of autonomy
Co-optation
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. Mis(reading) murderous reactions
Epilogue: Defiant disrobing going viral.

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