Full Description
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
Contents
Preface: Remembering Anna Rutherford
Introduction: Bodies and Voices. The Force-Field of Representation and Discourse
Africa
André VIOLA: Martyred Bodies and Silenced Voices in South African Literature Under Apartheid
Georgina HORRELL: Postcolonial Disgrace: (White) Women and (White) Guilt in the "new" South Africa
Benaouda LEBDAI: Identity: Bodies and Voices in Coetzee's Disgrace and Bouraoui's Garçon manqué
Chantal ZABUS: From "Cutting Without Ritual" to "Ritual Without Cutting": Voicing and Remembering the Excised Body in African Texts and Contexts
Maya G. VINUESA: A Women's Body on Fire: Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning
Rosa FIGUEIREDO: Ritual Theatre: Bodies and Voices
Eleonora CHIAVETTA: The Clothing Metaphor as a Signifier of Alienation in the Fiction of Karen King-Aribisala
Gregory HACKSLEY: Representations of Africa and Black Africans in the Poetry of Noel Brettell
Asia
Aparajita NANDA: Of a 'Voice' and 'Bodies': A Postcolonial Critique of Meena Alexander's Nampally Road
Maria Sofia PIMENTEL BISCAIA: Can Women Speak? Can the Female Body Talk? Speech and Anatomical Discourse in Githa Hariharan's When Dreams Travel
Shanthini PILLAI: Unpacking Imperial Crates of Subalternity: The Indian Immigrant Labourer of Colonial Malaya
Saidatul NORNIS HAJI MAHALI: Tinggayun: Implications of Dance and Song in Bajau Society
Christiane SCHLOTE: "Keeping Body and Soul Together": Rukhsana Ahmad's Critical Examinations of Female Body Politics in Pakistan and Britain
Hsiu-Chen Jane CHANG: Arthur Waley's The Way and Its Power: Representation of 'the Other'
The Settler Colonies
Carla COMELLINI: Bodies and Voices in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and Anil's Ghost
Marta DVORAK: Blurring Bodies/Blurring Borders: David Cronenberg Strikes Back
Carole FERRIER: "Never Forget that the Kanakas Are Men": Fictional Representations of the Enslaved Black Body
Annalisa OBOE: Metamorphic Bodies and Mongrel Subjectivities in Mudrooroo's The Undying
Werner SENN: Voicing the Body: The Cancer Poems of Philip Hodgins
Ulla RATHEISER: A Voice of One's Own: Language as a Central Element of Resistance, Reintegration of Identity in the Fiction of Patrice Grace
Janet WILSON: Suffering and Survival: Body and Voice in Recent Maori Writing
The Caribbean
Derren JOSEPH: Postcolonial Education and Afro-Trinidadian Social Exclusion
Giselle RAMPAUL: Voice as a Carnivalesque Strategy in West Indian Literature: Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending
Núria CASADO GUAL: The Representation of Oppressed (Corpo)realities: Cripples, Dwarfs and Blind Men in the Plays of Edgar Nkosi White
Britain and Eire
Susanne PICHLER: Between Aphasia and Articulateness - Alien-Nation and Belonging: National/Ethnic Identities in Selected Black British Novels
Carmen ZAMORANO LLENA: (Re)membering the Disembodied Verse: Constructs of Identity in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry
Carla RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ: "Scotland, Whit Like?" Coloured Voices in Historical Territories
Other Perspectives
José María de la TORRE : The Smeared Metaphor : Viscosity and Fluidity in Bataille's Story of the Eye
Emman Frank IDOKO: Confrontational and Sociometric Approaches to Reform Strategy in German and Nigerian Prisons: Convergences and Divergences
Marc COLAVINCENZO: Can the Postcolonial Critic Speak - And If So, Who Is Listening?
Jesús VARELA-ZAPATA: The Quest for Identity as a Pattern of Postcolonial Voices
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Index
