Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination

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Aviva Briefel

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2017 m.

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Svītrkods: 9781107538917

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 siĆØcle.