The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African BodyUsing Foucault's thinking on the relationship between power and knowledge, the author of this extraordinary book analyzes the ways in which the body of 'The African' has itself been analyzed in western thought from the Renaissance to the present. |
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Power Knowledge and the Body | 13 |
Renaissance Body Myths and the Spectacle | 34 |
Monstrous men 44 The eye of the explorer and | 50 |
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