Michelle Keown

Postcolonial Pacific Writing

Representations of the Body

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Produktbeschreibung

This major new 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415550505
• ISBN-10: 0415550505
• Artikelnr.: 26487621

Autorenporträt

Michelle Keown is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely on Maori and Pacific writing.

Inhaltsangabe

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