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Title Bodies and voices : the force-field of representation and discourse in colonial and postcolonial studies / edited by Merete Falck Borch [and others]
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xl, 459 pages)
Series Cross/cultures : Readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 94
Cross/cultures ; 94
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
Literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Human body -- Social aspects -- Congresses
Postcolonialism in literature -- Congresses
Imperialism in literature -- Congresses
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Human body in literature
Human body -- Social aspects
Imperialism in literature
Literature
Postcolonialism in literature
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Borch, Merete Falck.
Rutherford, Anna
European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Conference (2002 : Copenhagen, Denmark)
ISBN 9781435628564
143562856X
9789401205351
9401205353