Phenomenology and its phantoms: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Leiris

My essay focuses on the figure of the phantom in the work of phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the ethnographer Michel Leiris. I study their evocation of gestures as a site of communication and argue that within the colonial situation all communication—including the gestural—is ghosted by hi...

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Published in:French cultural studies 2024-08, Vol.35 (3), p.229-246
Main Author: Noland, Carrie
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:My essay focuses on the figure of the phantom in the work of phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the ethnographer Michel Leiris. I study their evocation of gestures as a site of communication and argue that within the colonial situation all communication—including the gestural—is ghosted by histories and cultural understandings that remain opaque.
ISSN:0957-1558
1740-2352
DOI:10.1177/09571558231209918