Bodies and Voices: The Force-Field of Representation and Discourse in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/ Colonial: Literatures in English, 94)

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 Martyred Bodies And Silenced Voices In South African Literature Under Apartheid / Andre Viola -- Postcolonial Disgrace : (white) Women And (white) Guilt In The New South Africa / Georgina Horrell -- Identity : Bodies And Voices In Coetzee's Disgrace And Bouraoui's Garcon Manque / Benaouda Lebdai -- From Cutting Without Ritual To Ritual Without Cutting : Voicing And Remembering The Excised Body In African Texts And Contexts / Chantal Zabus -- A Woman's Body On Fire : Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning / Maya G. Vinuesa -- Ritual Theatre : Bodies And Voices / Rosa Figueiredo -- The Clothing Metaphor As A Signifier Of Alienation In The Fiction Of Karen King-aribisala / Eleonora Chiavetta -- Representations Of Africa And Black Africans In The Poetry Of Noel Brettell / Gregory Hacksley -- Of A 'voice' And 'bodies' : A Postcolonial Critique Of Meena Alexander's Nampally Road / Aparajita Nanda --^ Can Women Speak? : Can The Female Body Talk? : Speech And Anatomical Discourse In Githa Hariharan's When Dreams Travel / Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia -- Unpacking Imperial Crates Of Subalternity : The Indian Immigrant Labourer Of Colonial Malaya / Shanthini Pillai -- Tinggayun : Implications Of Dance And Song In Bajau Society / Saidatul Nornis Haji Mahali -- Keeping Body And Soul Together : Rukhsana Ahmad's Critical Examinations Of Female Body Politics In Pakistan And Britain / Christiane Schlote -- Arthur Waley's The Way And Its Power : Representation Of 'the Other' / Hsiu-chen Jane Chang -- Bodies And Voices In Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient And Anil's Ghost / Carla Comellini -- Blurring Bodies/blurring Borders : David Cronenberg Strikes Back / Marta Dvorak -- Never Forget That The Kanakas Are Men : Fictional Representations Of The Enslaved Black Body / Carole Ferrier -- Metamorphic Bodies And Mongrel Subjectivities In Mudrooroo's The Undying / Annalisa Oboe --^ Voicing The Body : The Cancer Poems Of Philip Hodgins / Werner Senn -- A Voice Of One's Own : Language As Central Element Of Resistance, Reintegration And Reconstruction Of Identity In The Fiction Of Patricia Grace / Ulla Ratheiser -- Suffering And Survival : Body And Voice In Recent Maori Writing / Janet Wilson -- Postcolonial Education And Afro-trinidadian Social Exclusion / Derren Joseph -- Voice As A Carnivalesque Strategy In West Indian Literature : Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners And Moses Ascending / Giselle Rampaul -- The Representation Of Oppressed (corpo)realities : Cripples, Dwarfs And Blind Men In The Plays Of Edgar Nkosi White / Nuria Casado Gual -- Between Aphasia And Articulateness : Alien-nation And Belonging : National/ethnic Identities In Selected Black British Novels / Susanne Pichler -- (re)membering The Disembodied Verse : Constructs Of Identity In Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry / Carmen Zamorano Llena --^ Scotland, Whit Like? : Coloured Voices In Historical Territories / Carla Rodriguez Gonzalez -- The Smeared Metaphor : Viscosity And Fluidity In Bataille's Story Of The Eye / Jose Maria De La Torre -- Confrontational And Sociometric Approaches To Reform Strategy In German And Nigerian Prisons : Convergences And Divergences / Emmann Frank Idoko -- Can The Postcolonial Critic Speak : And If So, Who Is Listening? / Marc Colavincenzo -- The Quest For Identity As A Pattern Of Postcolonial Voices / Jesus Varela-zapata. Edited By Merete Falck Borch ... [et Al.]. 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. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Preface: Remembering Anna RutherfordIntroduction: Bodies and Voices. The Force-Field of Representation and DiscourseAfricaAndre VIOLA: Martyred Bodies and Silenced Voices in South African Literature Under ApartheidGeorgina HORRELL: Postcolonial Disgrace: (White) Women and (White) Guilt in the "new" South AfricaBenaouda LEBDAI: Identity: Bodies and Voices in Coetzee's Disgrace and Bouraoui's Garcon manqueChantal ZABUS: From "Cutting Without Ritual" to "Ritual Without Cutting": Voicing and Remembering the Excised Body in African Texts and ContextsMaya G. VINUESA: A Women's Body on Fire: Yvonne Vera's Butterfly BurningRosa FIGUEIREDO: Ritual Theatre: Bodies and VoicesEleonora 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 BrettellAsiaAparajita NANDA: Of a 'Voice' and 'Bodies': A Postcolonial Critique of Meena Alexander's Nampally RoadMaria 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 SocietyChristiane SCHLOTE: "Keeping Body and Soul Together": Rukhsana Ahmad's Critical Examinations of Female Body Politics in Pakistan and BritainHsiu-Chen Jane CHANG: Arthur Waley's The Way and Its Power: Representation of 'the Other' The Settler ColoniesCarla COMELLINI: Bodies and Voices in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and Anil's GhostMarta DVORAK: Blurring Bodies/Blurring Borders: David Cronenberg Strikes BackCarole FERRIER: "Never Forget that the Kanakas Are Men": Fictional Representations of the Enslaved Black BodyAnnalisa OBOE: Metamorphic Bodies and Mongrel Subjectivities in Mudrooroo's The UndyingWerner SENN: Voicing the Body: The Cancer Poems of Philip HodginsUlla RATHEISER: A Voice of One's Own: Language as a Central Element of Resistance, Reintegration of Identity in the Fiction of Patrice GraceJanet WILSON: Suffering and Survival: Body and Voice in Recent Maori WritingThe CaribbeanDerren JOSEPH: Postcolonial Education and Afro-Trinidadian Social ExclusionGiselle RAMPAUL: Voice as a Carnivalesque Strategy in West Indian Literature: Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners and Moses AscendingNuria CASADO GUAL: The Representation of Oppressed (Corpo)realities: Cripples, Dwarfs and Blind Men in the Plays of Edgar Nkosi WhiteBritain and EireSusanne PICHLER: Between Aphasia and Articulateness - Alien-Nation and Belonging: National/Ethnic Identities in Selected Black British NovelsCarmen ZAMORANO LLENA: (Re)membering the Disembodied Verse: Constructs of Identity in Contemporary Irish Women's PoetryCarla RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ: "Scotland, Whit Like?" Coloured Voices in Historical TerritoriesOther PerspectivesJose Maria de la TORRE : The Smeared Metaphor : Viscosity and Fluidity in Bataille's Story of the EyeEmman Frank IDOKO: Confrontational and Sociometric Approaches to Reform Strategy in German and Nigerian Prisons: Convergences and DivergencesMarc COLAVINCENZO: Can the Postcolonial Critic Speak - And If So, Who Is Listening?Jesus VARELA-ZAPATA: The Quest for Identity as a Pattern of Postcolonial VoicesNotes on Contributors and EditorsIndex