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Short stories, Commonwealth (English) --- Commonwealth fiction (English) --- Nouvelles du Commonwealth (anglaises) --- Roman du Commonwealth (anglais) --- Littérature anglophone --- Roman anglophone --- Nouvelles anglophones --- History and criticism --- Congresses. --- Histoire et critique --- Congrès. --- Congrès --- Littérature anglophone --- Congrès. --- Congrès

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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

Human body in literature --- Literature --- Human body --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Imperialism in literature --- Human body in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Body, Human --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Social aspects.

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The present volume contains general essays on: the relevance of ‘Commonwealth’ literature; the treatment of Dalits in literature and culture; the teaching of African literature in the UK; ‘sharing places’ and Drum magazine in South Africa; black British book covers as primers for cultural contact; Christianity, imperialism, and conversion; Orang Pendek and Papuans in colonial Indonesia; Carnival and drama in the anglophone Caribbean; issues of choice between the Maltese language and Its Others; and patterns of interaction between married couples in Malta. As well as these, there are essays providing close readings of works by the following authors: Chinua Achebe, André Aciman, Diran Adebayo, Monica Ali, Edward Atiyah, Margaret Atwood, Murray Bail, Peter Carey, Amit Chaudhuri, Austin Clarke, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Antjie Krog, Hanif Kureishi, Naguib Mahfouz, David Malouf, V.S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Tayeb Salih, Zadie Smith, Ahdaf Soueif, Yvonne Vera. Contributors: Jogamaya Bayer, Katrin Berndt, Sabrina Brancato, Monica Bungaro, Judith Lütge Coulli, Robert Cribb, Natasha Distiller, Evelyne Hanquart–Turner, Marie Herbillon, Tuomas Huttunen, Gen’ichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Jondot, Karen King–Aribisala, Ursula Kluwick, Dorothy Lane, Ben Lebdai, Lourdes López–Ropero, Amin Malak, Daniel Massa, Concepción Mengibar–Rico, Susanne Reichl, Brigitte Scheer–Schaezler, Lydia Sciriha, Jamie S. Scott, Andrea Strolz, Peter O. Stummer, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Clare Thake Vassallo.

Commonwealth literature (English) --- Commonwealth fiction (English) --- Postcolonialism --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Commonwealth of Nations fiction (English) --- English fiction --- Commonwealth of Nations literature (English) --- English literature --- History and criticism --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- Commonwealth countries. --- British Commonwealth countries --- British Commonwealth nations --- British Dominions --- Commonwealth nations