{"title":"Phenomenology and its phantoms: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Leiris","authors":"Carrie Noland","doi":"10.1177/09571558231209918","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":12398,"journal":{"name":"French Cultural Studies","volume":"12 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"French Cultural Studies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558231209918","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
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.
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French Cultural Studies is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes international research on all aspects of French culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Articles are welcome on such areas as cinema, television and radio, the press, the visual arts, popular culture, cultural policy and cultural and intellectual debate. French Cultural Studies is designed to respond to the important changes that have affected the study of French culture, language and society in all sections of the education system. The journal encourages and provides a forum for the full range of work being done on all aspects of modern French culture.