Description |
1 online resource (xl, 459 pages). |
Series |
Cross/cultures : Readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 94 |
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Cross/cultures ; 94.
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Note |
Volume dedicated to Anna Rutherford, 1932-2001. |
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Papers originally presented at the conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies held in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2002. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Note |
Print version record. |
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. |
Subject |
Human body in literature -- Congresses.
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Postcolonialism in literature -- Congresses.
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Imperialism in literature -- Congresses.
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Social sciences.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Human body in literature. (OCoLC)fst01899762
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Human body -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01730101
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Imperialism in literature. (OCoLC)fst00968142
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Postcolonialism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01073035
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Genre/Form |
Conference proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Added Author |
Borch, Merete Falck.
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Rutherford, Anna.
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European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Conference (2002 : Copenhagen, Denmark)
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Other Form: |
Print version: Bodies and voices. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008 9042023341 9789042023345 (OCoLC)191856345 |
ISBN |
9781435628564 (electronic bk.) |
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143562856X (electronic bk.) |
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