The Racial Hand in the Victorian

The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination 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. Autor: Aviva (Bowdoin College Briefel Wydawnictwo: Cambridge University Press Rok wydania: 2017 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 234 Wymiary: 23 x 15.4 x 1.3 cm Ilustracje: 12 Halftones, unspecified; 12 Halftones, black and white Język: angielski ISBN: 9781107538917