Publisher's Synopsis
This book explores the significance of corporeality in postcolonial literature through a "South-South" comparison of the work of Colombian author Gabriel Garcìa Márquez and Congolese author Sony Labou Tansi. It argues that the body represents a basic trope in imagining postcolonial power in the postcolony. Organized thematically, the chapters compare these authors' novels in relation to the dehumanised body, bodies at war, the dead body, the body in relation to borders, and the dictator's body. It taps into the growing critical interest in bringing Latin American and African literatures into conversation with each other.
