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Theorizing the Disfigured Body

Mutilation, Amputation, and Disability Culture in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone

ISBN-13: 9781592219650

Author(s): Ernest Cole

Subjects: HBH, HBJH, NHH

Publisher: Africa World Press

Publisher Imprint: Africa World Press

Publication Date: 19-06-2014

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£24.95

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About the book

Theorizing The Disfigured Body explores the mutilated body as signifier of possession, control and domination. It examines the interconnections between the wound and the identity of the individual and affirms that wounding is naming. This book uses war memoirs and journalistic narratives published between 1991 and 2001, in addition to personal testimonies of victims to foreground the author's argument of the body as signifier.

Theorizing the Disfigured Body

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