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Bodies and Voices : The Force-Field of Representation and Discourse in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies.
Title:
Bodies and Voices : The Force-Field of Representation and Discourse in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies.
Author:
Borch, Merete Falck.
ISBN:
9789401205351
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (500 pages)
Series:
Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, 94 ; v.v. 94

Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, 94
Contents:
Bodies and Voices -- Table of Contents -- IN MEMORIAM -- Preface -- Introduction -- AFRICA -- Martyred Bodies and Silenced Voices in South African Literature Under Apartheid -- Postcolonial Disgrace -- Identity -- From "Cutting Without Ritual" to "Ritual Without Cutting" -- A Woman's Body on Fire -- 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 -- ASIA -- Of a 'Voice' and 'Bodies' -- Can Women Speak? Can the Female Body Talk? -- Unpacking Imperial Crates of Subalternity -- Tinggayun -- "Keeping Body and Soul Together" -- Arthur Waley's The Way and Its Power -- THE SETTLER COLONIES -- Bodies and Voices in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and Anil's Ghost -- Blurring Bodies/Blurring Borders -- "Never Forget that the Kanakas Are Men" -- Metamorphic Bodies and Mongrel Subjectivities in Mudrooroo's The Undying -- Voicing the Body -- A Voice of One's Own -- Suffering and Survival -- THE CARIBBEAN -- Postcolonial Education and Afro-Trinidadian Social Exclusion -- Voice as a Carnivalesque Strategy in West Indian Literature -- The Representation of Oppressed (Corpo)realities -- BRITAIN AND EIRE -- Between Aphasia and Articulateness - Alien-Nation and Belonging -- (Re)membering the Disembodied Verse -- "Scotland, Whit Like?" -- OTHER PERSPECTIVES -- The Smeared Metaphor -- Confrontational and Sociometric Approaches to Reform Strategy in German and Nigerian Prisons -- Can the Postcolonial Critic Speak - And If So, Who Is Listening? -- The Quest for Identity as a Pattern of Postcolonial Voices -- Notes on Contributors and Editors -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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