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This essential analysis of literature and art in a single African woman-centered study fills an urgent void. This is a book that breaks `the silences of African feminist criticism on the sexual female body.' I don't think there has been such important scholarship in African feminism since the works of Oyewumi and Amadiume were written ten and twenty years ago, respectively. This rare and much-needed crossover study answers an important call by going beyond literature to incorporate comparative studies of the arts at the same time. -Cheryl Toman, author of Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory -- Cheryl Toman These wide-ranging examples from African women's literature, visual and performance arts, and Ayo Coly's extended analyses of them copiously support her arguments concerning colonial images of African women's bodies and sexuality, the concept of hauntology, and efforts to counter such postcolonial `ghosts' from the past. Postcolonial Hauntologies is a thought-provoking and extremely well-researched work. -Elisha Renne, author of Cloth That Does Not Die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bunu Social Life -- Elisha Renne

These wide-ranging examples from African women's literature and visual and performance arts, and Ayo Coly's extended analyses of them, copiously support her arguments concerning colonial images of African women's bodies and sexuality, the concept of hauntology, and efforts to counter such postcolonial 'ghosts' from the past. Postcolonial Hauntologies is a thought-provoking and extremely well-researched work. -Elisha Renne, author of Cloth That Does Not Die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bunu Social Life -- Elisha Renne This essential analysis of literature and art in a single African woman-centered study fills an urgent void. This is a book that breaks 'the silences of African feminist criticism on the sexual female body.' I don't think there has been such important scholarship in African feminism since the works of Oyewumi and Amadiume were written ten and twenty years ago, respectively. This rare and much-needed crossover study answers an important call by going beyond literature to incorporate comparative studies of the arts at the same time. -Cheryl Toman, author of Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory -- Cheryl Toman

This essential analysis of literature and art in a single African woman-centered study fills an urgent void. This is a book that breaks `the silences of African feminist criticism on the sexual female body.' I don't think there has been such important scholarship in African feminism since the works of Oyewumi and Amadiume were written ten and twenty years ago, respectively. This rare and much-needed crossover study answers an important call by going beyond literature to incorporate comparative studies of the arts at the same time. -Cheryl Toman, author of Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory -- Cheryl Toman These wide-ranging examples from African women's literature and visual and performance arts, and Ayo Coly's extended analyses of them, copiously support her arguments concerning colonial images of African women's bodies and sexuality, the concept of hauntology, and efforts to counter such postcolonial `ghosts' from the past. Postcolonial Hauntologies is a thought-provoking and extremely well-researched work. -Elisha Renne, author of Cloth That Does Not Die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bunu Social Life -- Elisha Renne

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Ayo A. Coly is an associate professor of comparative literature and African studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures.

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