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.
0
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Postcolonial Pacific writing.
International Standard Book Number
0415299578
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Human body in literature.
Pacific Island literature (English)-- History and criticism.