The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination (Cambridge by Aviva Briefel

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By Aviva Briefel

The fingers of colonized matters - South Asian craftsmen, Egyptian mummies, harem ladies, and Congolese little ones - have been on the crux of Victorian discussions of the physique that attempted to come back to phrases with the bounds of racial identity. whereas non secular, clinical, and literary discourses privileged arms as websites of physiognomic details, none of those came upon believable reasons for what those physique elements may exhibit approximately ethnicity. As reimbursement for this absence, which would betray the truth that race used to be no longer truly inscribed at the physique, fin-de-siècle narratives sought to generate versions for a way non-white fingers may perhaps supply the most important technique of making a choice on and theorizing racial id. They got rid of arms from a holistic corporeal context and allowed them to stream independently from the physique to which they initially belonged. Severed arms therefore served as 'human instruments' which may be placed to exploit in a couple of political, aesthetic, and ideological contexts.

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