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The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination

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The hands of colonized subjects were vital sites of fascination and interpretation in late-Victorian imperial narratives. The book considers accounts of fingerprinting, amputation, disease, manual labor, and mummification as central examples of the racial significance assigned to hands around the fin de siecle.

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The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination, Aviva Briefel

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2017
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Langue
Anglais
Publié
2017
Format
souple
Pages
234
ISBN10
1107538912
ISBN13
9781107538917
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The hands of colonized subjects were vital sites of fascination and interpretation in late-Victorian imperial narratives. The book considers accounts of fingerprinting, amputation, disease, manual labor, and mummification as central examples of the racial significance assigned to hands around the fin de siecle.