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The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination (Hardcover)
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The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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The hands of colonized subjects - South Asian craftsmen, Egyptian
mummies, harem women, and Congolese children - were at the crux of
Victorian discussions of the body that tried to come to terms with
the limits of racial identification. While religious, scientific,
and literary discourses privileged hands as sites of physiognomic
information, none of these found plausible explanations for what
these body parts could convey about ethnicity. As compensation for
this absence, which might betray the fact that race was not
actually inscribed on the body, fin-de-siecle narratives sought to
generate models for how non-white hands might offer crucial means
of identifying and theorizing racial identity. They removed hands
from a holistic corporeal context and allowed them to circulate
independently from the body to which they originally belonged.
Severed hands consequently served as 'human tools' that could be
put to use in a number of political, aesthetic, and ideological
contexts.
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