Bodies and Voices. The Force-Field of Representation and Discource in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies.

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

MERETE FALCK BORCH is an administrator and researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Americas at the Copenhagen Business School. EVA RASK KNUDSEN is an associate professor in the Department of English, German and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. MARTIN LEER heads the section for contemporary and postcolonial literatures at the University of Geneva. BRUCE CLUNIES ROSS, before his retirement, taught at the University of Copenhagen.