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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Author(s): Aviva (Bowdoin College, Maine) Briefel
Illustration(s): 12 Halftones, unspecified; 12 Halftones, black and white
Number of pages: 234
Collection: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture