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Paperback The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination Book

ISBN: 1107538912

ISBN13: 9781107538917

The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)

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The hands of colonized subjects - South Asian craftsmen, Egyptian mummies, harem women, and Congolese children - were at the crux of Victorian discussions of the body that tried to come to terms with the limits of racial identification. While religious, scientific, and literary discourses privileged hands as sites of physiognomic information, none of these found plausible explanations for what these body parts could convey about ethnicity. As compensation...

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