Bodies and Voices: The Force-Field of Representation and Discourse in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

Eva Rask Knudsen (Editor), Merete Borch Falch (Editor), Martin Leer (Editor), Bruce Clunies Ross (Editor)

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
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationNew York / Amsterdam
PublisherBrill | Rodopi
Number of pages519
ISBN (Print)978-90-420-2334-5
Publication statusPublished - 2008
SeriesCross/Cultures Series
Number94
ISSN0924-1426

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • body readings
  • contemporary literature
  • socio-anthropology
  • colonial studies
  • postcolonial studies

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