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Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History

Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History

Ballantyne, Tony
Burton, Antoinette

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General World History

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ISBN10: 0822334550
ISBN13: 9780822334552
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 31 2005
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.40 Width: 9.40 Depth: 6.10
Language: English
From portrayals of African women's bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean comfort women forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World War, the essays collected in Bodies in Contact demonstrate how a focus on the body as a site of cultural encounter provides essential insights into world history. Together these essays reveal the body as contact zone as a powerful analytic rubric for interpreting the mechanisms and legacies of colonialism and illuminating how attention to gender alters understandings of world history. Rather than privileging the operations of the Foreign Office or gentlemanly capitalists, these historical studies render the home, the street, the school, the club, and the marketplace visible as sites of imperial ideologies.

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