The hands of colonized subjects were vital sites of fascination and interpretation in late-Victorian imperial narratives. The book considers accounts of fingerprinting, amputation, disease, manual labor, and mummification as central examples of the racial significance assigned to hands around the fin de sià cle.
The hands of colonized subjects were vital sites of fascination and interpretation in late-Victorian imperial narratives. The book considers accounts of fingerprinting, amputation, disease, manual labor, and mummification as central examples of the racial significance assigned to hands around the fin de sià cle.
Produktdetails
Produktdetails
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Aviva Briefel is Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College, Maine. She is the author of The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (2006) and the co-editor of Horror after 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror (2011).
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Introduction 1. The case of the blank hand: race and manual legibility 2. Potters and prosthetics: putting Indian hands to work 3. The mummy's hand: art and evolution 4. A hand for a hand: punishment, responsibility, and imperial desire 5. Crimes of the hand: manual violence and the Congo Coda Bibliography.
Introduction 1. The case of the blank hand: race and manual legibility 2. Potters and prosthetics: putting Indian hands to work 3. The mummy's hand: art and evolution 4. A hand for a hand: punishment, responsibility, and imperial desire 5. Crimes of the hand: manual violence and the Congo Coda Bibliography.
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