Bodies and voices : : the force-field of representation and discourse in colonial and postcolonial studies / / edited by Merete Falck Borch ... [et al.].

• Superior document: Cross/cultures : Readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 94
• Author: European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Conference
• TeilnehmendeR: Borch, Merete Falck.; Rutherford, Anna.; European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Conference
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/cultures ; 94.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (500 p.)
• Notes: Volume dedicated to Anna Rutherford, 1932-2001.; Papers originally presented at the conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies held in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2002.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Martyred Bodies and Silenced Voices in South African Literature Under Apartheid /; Postcolonial Disgrace: (White) Women and (White) Guilt in the “New” South Africa /; Identity: Bodies and Voices in Coetzee’s Disgrace and Bouraoui’s Garçon manqué /; From “Cutting Without Ritual” to “Ritual Without Cutting”: Voicing and Remembering the Excised Body in African Texts and Contexts /; A Woman’s Body on Fire: Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning /; Ritual Theatre: Bodies and Voices /; The Clothing Metaphor as a Signifier of Alienation in the Fiction of Karen King–Aribisala /; Representations of Africa and Black Africans in the Poetry of Noel Brettell /; Of a ‘Voice’ and ‘Bodies’: A Postcolonial Critique of Meena Alexander’s Nampally Road /; Can Women Speak? Can the Female Body Talk?: Speech and Anatomical Discourse in Githa Hariharan’s When Dreams Travel /; Unpacking Imperial Crates of Subalternity: The Indian Immigrant Labourer of Colonial Malaya /; Tinggayun: Implications of Dance and Song in Bajau Society /; “Keeping Body and Soul Together”: Rukhsana Ahmad’s Critical Examinations of Female Body Politics in Pakistan and Britain /; Arthur Waley’s The Way and Its Power: Representation of ‘the Other’ /; Bodies and Voices in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Anil’s Ghost /; Blurring Bodies/Blurring Borders: David Cronenberg Strikes Back /; “Never Forget that the Kanakas Are Men”: Fictional Representations of the Enslaved Black Body /; Metamorphic Bodies and Mongrel Subjectivities in Mudrooroo’s The Undying /; Voicing the Body: The Cancer Poems of Philip Hodgins /; A Voice of One’s Own: Language as Central Element of Resistance, Reintegration and Reconstruction of Identity in the Fiction of Patricia Grace /; Suffering and Survival: Body and Voice in Recent Maori Writing /; Postcolonial Education and Afro-Trinidadian Social Exclusion /; Voice as a Carnivalesque Strategy in West Indian Literature: Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending /; The Representation of Oppressed (Corpo)realities: Cripples, Dwarfs and Blind Men in the Plays of Edgar Nkosi White /; Between Aphasia and Articulateness – Alien-Nation and Belonging: National/Ethnic Identities in Selected Black British Novels /; (Re)membering the Disembodied Verse: Constructs of Identity in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry /; “Scotland, Whit Like?”: Coloured Voices in Historical Territories /; The Smeared Metaphor: Viscosity and Fluidity in Bataille’s Story of the Eye /; Confrontational and Sociometric Approaches to Reform Strategy in German and Nigerian Prisons: Convergences and Divergences /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9401205353; 143562856X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Merete Falck Borch ... [et al.].

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