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Ch4. Gender on the Post-Colony: Phenomenology, Race and the Body in Nervous Conditions

by Sweta Rajan-Rankin and Mrinalini Greedharry – This chapter explores the ways in which racialized bodies are re-presented through a phenomenological analysis of Tsitsi Dangaremgba’s Nervous Conditions. In order to situate the body within gendered and racialized narratives, the authors consider three key assertions. First, that gender is itself a colonial construct and postcolonial accounts of Blackness have often been