Postcolonial Pacific writing : representations of the body /

Postcolonial Pacific writing : representations of the body / Michelle Keown.

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Drawing on anthropology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, history and medicine, Postcolonial Pacific Writing develops an innovative postcolonial framework specific to the literatures and cultures of this region.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Keown, Michelle, 1972-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series:Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.
Subjects:
Pacific Island literature (English) > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism > Islands of the Pacific.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism > Polynesia.
Postcolonialism > Oceania.
Human body in literature.
Intellectual life.
Pacific Island literature (English)
Postcolonialism.
Islands of the Pacific > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Polynesia > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Oceania > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Oceania.
Pacific Ocean > Islands of the Pacific.
Polynesia.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Postcolonial dystopias: race, allegory and the Polynesian body in the writing of Albert Wendt; 'Gauguin is dead': Sia Figiel and the Polynesian female body; Purifying the abject body: satire and scatology in Epeli Hau'ofa's Kisses in the Nederends; Alistair Te Ariki Campbell: mental illness and postcoloniality; Remoulding the body politic: Keri Hulme's The Bone People; Disease, colonialism and the national 'body': Witi Ihimaera's The Dream Swimmer; Language and the corporeal: Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes.

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