03143nam 2200733 450 991082606290332120230721010852.00-7391-1811-00-7391-5229-7(CKB)2550000001109902(EBL)1331609(OCoLC)855969478(SSID)ssj0000953068(PQKBManifestationID)12469576(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000953068(PQKBWorkID)10925734(PQKB)11590558(MiAaPQ)EBC1331609(Au-PeEL)EBL1331609(CaPaEBR)ebr10934780(CaONFJC)MIL509850(EXLCZ)99255000000110990220140929h20072007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBetween image and identity transnational fantasy, symbolic violence, and feminist misrecognition /Karina EileraasLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2007.©20071 online resource (207 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-1812-9 1-299-78599-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Women Between Nations: Violence and the (Im)possibilities of Representation; 1 Fantasizing the Self: Identifying With and Against Images; 2 Disorienting Looks, Ecarts D'Identité: Colonial Photography, Ownership, and Identity; 3 Misrecognizing the Family Album: Blood, Fantasy, and Nationality in the Works of Helene Cixous and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha; 4 Dismembering the Gaze: Speleology and Vivisection in Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia; Final Overture: Of Mutilation and Re-membering; Bibliography; IndexAbout the AuthorThis 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.Feminist theoryPolitical aspectsSex rolePolitical aspectsWomenViolence againstPostcolonialismSymbolismIdentity (Psychology)Women authorsWomen artistsFeminist theoryPolitical aspects.Sex rolePolitical aspects.WomenViolence against.Postcolonialism.Symbolism.Identity (Psychology)Women authors.Women artists.305.48/9692Eileraas Karina1971-1622274MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826062903321Between image and identity3956053UNINA