Bodies and Voices: The Force- Field of Representation and Discourse in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (Cross Cultures)

Bodies and Voices......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
IN MEMORIAM......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 18
AFRICA......Page 42
Martyred Bodies and Silenced Voices in South African Literature Under Apartheid......Page 44
Postcolonial Disgrace......Page 58
Identity......Page 74
From “Cutting Without Ritual” to “Ritual Without Cutting”......Page 86
A Woman’s Body on Fire......Page 110
Ritual Theatre: Bodies and Voices......Page 122
The Clothing Metaphor as a Signifier of Alienation in the Fiction of Karen King–Aribisala......Page 134
Representations of Africa and Black Africans in the Poetry of Noel Brettell......Page 144
ASIA......Page 158
Of a ‘Voice’ and ‘Bodies’......Page 160
Can Women Speak? Can the Female Body Talk?......Page 168
Unpacking Imperial Crates of Subalternity......Page 178
Tinggayun......Page 194
“Keeping Body and Soul Together”......Page 204
Arthur Waley’s The Way and Its Power......Page 216
THE SETTLER COLONIES......Page 226
Bodies and Voices in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Anil’s Ghost......Page 228
Blurring Bodies/Blurring Borders......Page 238
“Never Forget that the Kanakas Are Men”......Page 246
Metamorphic Bodies and Mongrel Subjectivities in Mudrooroo’s The Undying......Page 266
Voicing the Body......Page 278
A Voice of One’s Own......Page 292
Suffering and Survival......Page 308
THE CARIBBEAN......Page 324
Postcolonial Education and Afro-Trinidadian Social Exclusion......Page 326
Voice as a Carnivalesque Strategy in West Indian Literature......Page 350
The Representation of Oppressed (Corpo)realities......Page 362
BRITAIN AND EIRE......Page 372
Between Aphasia and Articulateness – Alien-Nation and Belonging......Page 374
(Re)membering the Disembodied Verse......Page 390
“Scotland, Whit Like?”......Page 404
OTHER PERSPECTIVES......Page 420
The Smeared Metaphor......Page 422
Confrontational and Sociometric Approaches to Reform Strategy in German and Nigerian Prisons......Page 430
Can the Postcolonial Critic Speak – And If So, Who Is Listening?......Page 446
The Quest for Identity as a Pattern of Postcolonial Voices......Page 454
Notes on Contributors and Editors......Page 474
Index......Page 482