Ebi Kuku

Complicit Bodies: Self-Objectification and the Psychoanalytic Logic of Female Subjugation in Chika Unigwe's on Black Sisters' Street

Chika Unigwe's on Black Sisters' Street narrates the recruitment of four African women into a sex trade network in Antwerp, and each woman arrives at that network through a decision she makes rather than a force applied against her. This paper reads Efe, Alek, Ama and Sisi through a psychoanalytic feminist lens that...