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

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