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)

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