Black women’s naked bodies: Poetic and Political Axes of African Women’s Literature

In African countries in general, colonial power found in black women’s naked bodies an axial instrument for the material and symbolic exercise of violence and appropriation. Embodiment was discursively constructed to legitimate the imposition of a social order codified by race and gender. As anticol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Catarina Isabel Caldeira Martins
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2019-05-01
Series:Revista Estudos Feministas
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/58880