Images of African Eunuchs: Orientalism, Teratology, and tje Colonial Imagination

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Autor(a) principal: de Souza Correa, Silvio Marcus
Data de Publicação: 2023
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Afro-Ásia (Online)
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/afroasia/article/view/53077
Resumo: The European pictorial tradition’s ‘orientalism’ was one of the many sources of images of African eunuchs. An orientalist iconography of African eunuchs was present in the illustrated press and travel literature. Furthermore, medical teratology discussed eunuchs. As a visual record of human ‘types’, photography of African eunuchs was part of a teratologic inventory of a world about to disappear, according to the perspective of the colonial empires. Based on an iconographic corpus in diverse media support, this paper discusses the paradoxical ‘subalternity’ of African eunuchs and searches for the eunuchs’ inaudible voice in historiography. Finally, this paper maps the winding road from male genital mutilation to the symbolic emasculation of Africans in the colonial imaginary.
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spelling Images of African Eunuchs: Orientalism, Teratology, and tje Colonial ImaginationImagens de eunucos africanos: orientalismo, teratologia e imaginário colonialEunuchsOrientalismTeratologyColonial imaginaryEunucos OrientalismoTeratologiaImaginário colonialThe European pictorial tradition’s ‘orientalism’ was one of the many sources of images of African eunuchs. An orientalist iconography of African eunuchs was present in the illustrated press and travel literature. Furthermore, medical teratology discussed eunuchs. As a visual record of human ‘types’, photography of African eunuchs was part of a teratologic inventory of a world about to disappear, according to the perspective of the colonial empires. Based on an iconographic corpus in diverse media support, this paper discusses the paradoxical ‘subalternity’ of African eunuchs and searches for the eunuchs’ inaudible voice in historiography. Finally, this paper maps the winding road from male genital mutilation to the symbolic emasculation of Africans in the colonial imaginary.As imagens dos eunucos africanos têm origens diversas. Da tradição pictórica europeia, o “orientalismo” foi uma delas. Uma iconografia orientalista sobre os eunucos africanos aparece ainda tanto na imprensa periódica ilustrada quando na literatura de viagem. Uma teratologia médica tratou, igualmente, dos eunucos. Enquanto registro visual de “tipos” humanos, a fotografia de eunucos africanos fez parte do inventário teratológico de um mundo que desaparecia na perspectiva dos impérios coloniais. Com base num corpus iconográfico com imagens de diferentes suportes materiais, discute-se a paradoxal “subalternidade” dos eunucos africanos e busca-se perceber a voz inaudível dos mesmos na historiografia. Por fim, mapeia-se um trajeto sinuoso da mutilação genital masculina à emasculação simbólica dos africanos no imaginário colonial.UFBA2023-12-31info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionDouble-blid peer-reviewed articleArtigo avaliado por pares em regime de duplo anonimatoapplication/pdfhttps://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/afroasia/article/view/53077Afro-Ásia; No. 68 (2023); 133-175Afro-Ásia; n. 68 (2023); 133-1751981-14110002-0591reponame:Afro-Ásia (Online)instname:Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)instacron:UFBAporhttps://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/afroasia/article/view/53077/31270Copyright (c) 2024 Silvio Marcus de Souza Correahttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessde Souza Correa, Silvio Marcus2024-01-20T17:14:32Zoai:ojs.periodicos.ufba.br:article/53077Revistahttps://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/afroasiaPUBhttps://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/afroasia/oaiafroasia@ufba.br1981-14110002-0591opendoar:2024-01-20T17:14:32Afro-Ásia (Online) - Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Images of African Eunuchs: Orientalism, Teratology, and tje Colonial Imagination
Imagens de eunucos africanos: orientalismo, teratologia e imaginário colonial
title Images of African Eunuchs: Orientalism, Teratology, and tje Colonial Imagination
spellingShingle Images of African Eunuchs: Orientalism, Teratology, and tje Colonial Imagination
de Souza Correa, Silvio Marcus
Eunuchs
Orientalism
Teratology
Colonial imaginary
Eunucos
Orientalismo
Teratologia
Imaginário colonial
title_short Images of African Eunuchs: Orientalism, Teratology, and tje Colonial Imagination
title_full Images of African Eunuchs: Orientalism, Teratology, and tje Colonial Imagination
title_fullStr Images of African Eunuchs: Orientalism, Teratology, and tje Colonial Imagination
title_full_unstemmed Images of African Eunuchs: Orientalism, Teratology, and tje Colonial Imagination
title_sort Images of African Eunuchs: Orientalism, Teratology, and tje Colonial Imagination
author de Souza Correa, Silvio Marcus
author_facet de Souza Correa, Silvio Marcus
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv de Souza Correa, Silvio Marcus
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Eunuchs
Orientalism
Teratology
Colonial imaginary
Eunucos
Orientalismo
Teratologia
Imaginário colonial
topic Eunuchs
Orientalism
Teratology
Colonial imaginary
Eunucos
Orientalismo
Teratologia
Imaginário colonial
description The European pictorial tradition’s ‘orientalism’ was one of the many sources of images of African eunuchs. An orientalist iconography of African eunuchs was present in the illustrated press and travel literature. Furthermore, medical teratology discussed eunuchs. As a visual record of human ‘types’, photography of African eunuchs was part of a teratologic inventory of a world about to disappear, according to the perspective of the colonial empires. Based on an iconographic corpus in diverse media support, this paper discusses the paradoxical ‘subalternity’ of African eunuchs and searches for the eunuchs’ inaudible voice in historiography. Finally, this paper maps the winding road from male genital mutilation to the symbolic emasculation of Africans in the colonial imaginary.
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