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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borch, Merete Falck.

Rutherford, Anna.

European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Conference (2002 : Copenhagen, Denmark)

Series:

Cross/cultures ; 94.

Cross/cultures : Readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 94

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in literature--Congresses.

Human body in literature.

Literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Literature.

Human body--Social aspects--Congresses.

Human body.

Postcolonialism in literature--Congresses.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Imperialism in literature--Congresses.

Imperialism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (500 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

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

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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0535-3

1-4356-2856-X

OCLC:

714568431

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401205351 DOI