Bodies and voices : the force-field of representation and discourse in colonial and postcolonial studies / / 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, ab...
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| Superior document: | Cross/cultures : Readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 94 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (500 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Martyred Bodies and Silenced Voices in South African Literature Under Apartheid / André Viola
- Postcolonial Disgrace: (White) Women and (White) Guilt in the “New” South Africa / Georgina Horrell
- Identity: Bodies and Voices in Coetzee’s Disgrace and Bouraoui’s Garçon manqué / Benaouda Lebdai
- From “Cutting Without Ritual” to “Ritual Without Cutting”: Voicing and Remembering the Excised Body in African Texts and Contexts / Chantal Zabus
- A Woman’s Body on Fire: Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning / Maya G. Vinuesa
- Ritual Theatre: Bodies and Voices / Rosa Figueiredo
- The Clothing Metaphor as a Signifier of Alienation in the Fiction of Karen King–Aribisala / Eleonora Chiavetta
- Representations of Africa and Black Africans in the Poetry of Noel Brettell / Gregory Hacksley
- Of a ‘Voice’ and ‘Bodies’: A Postcolonial Critique of Meena Alexander’s Nampally Road / Aparajita Nanda
- Can Women Speak? Can the Female Body Talk?: Speech and Anatomical Discourse in Githa Hariharan’s When Dreams Travel / Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia
- Unpacking Imperial Crates of Subalternity: The Indian Immigrant Labourer of Colonial Malaya / Shanthini Pillai
- Tinggayun: Implications of Dance and Song in Bajau Society / Saidatul Nornis Haji Mahali
- “Keeping Body and Soul Together”: Rukhsana Ahmad’s Critical Examinations of Female Body Politics in Pakistan and Britain / Christiane Schlote
- Arthur Waley’s The Way and Its Power: Representation of ‘the Other’ / Hsiu-Chen Jane Chang
- Bodies and Voices in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Anil’s Ghost / Carla Comellini
- Blurring Bodies/Blurring Borders: David Cronenberg Strikes Back / Marta Dvorak
- “Never Forget that the Kanakas Are Men”: Fictional Representations of the Enslaved Black Body / Carole Ferrier
- Metamorphic Bodies and Mongrel Subjectivities in Mudrooroo’s The Undying / Annalisa Oboe
- Voicing the Body: The Cancer Poems of Philip Hodgins / Werner Senn
- A Voice of One’s Own: Language as Central Element of Resistance, Reintegration and Reconstruction of Identity in the Fiction of Patricia Grace / Ulla Ratheiser
- Suffering and Survival: Body and Voice in Recent Maori Writing / Janet Wilson
- Postcolonial Education and Afro-Trinidadian Social Exclusion / Derren Joseph
- Voice as a Carnivalesque Strategy in West Indian Literature: Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending / Giselle Rampaul
- The Representation of Oppressed (Corpo)realities: Cripples, Dwarfs and Blind Men in the Plays of Edgar Nkosi White / Núria Casado Gual
- Between Aphasia and Articulateness – Alien-Nation and Belonging: National/Ethnic Identities in Selected Black British Novels / Susanne Pichler
- (Re)membering the Disembodied Verse: Constructs of Identity in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry / Carmen Zamorano Llena
- “Scotland, Whit Like?”: Coloured Voices in Historical Territories / Carla Rodríguez González
- The Smeared Metaphor: Viscosity and Fluidity in Bataille’s Story of the Eye / José María de La Torre
- Confrontational and Sociometric Approaches to Reform Strategy in German and Nigerian Prisons: Convergences and Divergences / Emman Frank Idoko.