Description |
1 online resource (xl, 459 pages) |
Series |
Cross/cultures : Readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 94 |
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Cross/cultures ; 94
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Contents |
Bodies and Voices; Table of Contents; IN MEMORIAM; Preface; Introduction; AFRICA; ASIA; THE SETTLER COLONIES; THE CARIBBEAN; BRITAIN AND EIRE; OTHER PERSPECTIVES; Notes on Contributors and Editors; Index |
Summary |
A wide-ranging collection of essays centred on readings of the body in contemporary literary and socio-anthropological discourse, from slavery and rape to female genital mutilation, from clothing, ocular pornography, voice, deformation and transmutation to the imprisoned, dismembered, remembered, abducted or ghostly body, in Africa, Australasia and the Pacific, Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain and Eire |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Human body in literature -- Congresses
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Postcolonialism in literature -- Congresses
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Imperialism in literature -- Congresses
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Human body in literature
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Imperialism in literature
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Literature
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Borch, Merete Falck.
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Rutherford, Anna
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European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Conference (2002 : Copenhagen, Denmark)
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ISBN |
9781435628564 |
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143562856X |
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9789401205351 |
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9401205353 |
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