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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]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xl, 459 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
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.
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Subject Human body in literature -- Congresses.
Human body in literature.
Literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Literature.
Human body -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Postcolonialism in literature -- Congresses.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Imperialism in literature -- Congresses.
Imperialism in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings.
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 book)
143562856X (electronic book)
9789401205351
9401205353
9042023341
9789042023345