Michelle Keown
Postcolonial Pacific Writing
Representations of the Body
Paperback Engels 2009 9780415550505Levertijd ongeveer 11 werkdagen
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Samenvatting
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary study focuses on the representation of the body in the work of eight of Polynesia's most significant contemporary writers. 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.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780415550505
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:256
Uitgever:Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Inhoudsopgave
1. Introduction 2. Postcolonial dystopias: race, allegory and the Polynesian body in the writing of Albert Wendt 3. 'Gauguin is dead': Sia Figiel and the Polynesian female body 4. Purifying the abject body: satire and scatology in Epeli Hau'ofa's Kisses in the Nederends 5. Alistair Te Ariki Campbell: mental illness and postcoloniality 6. Remoulding the body politic: Keri Hulme's The Bone People 7. Disease, colonialism and the national 'body': Witi Ihimaera's The Dream Swimmer 8. Language and the corporeal: Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes 9. The narcissistic body: Alan Duff's Once Were Warriors 10. Conclusion: reinscribing the Polynesian body
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