Postcolonial Pacific Writing
In this major new interdisciplinary study, Michelle Keown examines representations of the body in the work of eight of Polynesia's most significant contemporary writers. Exploring inter-connections between postcolonial studies and disciplines including anthropology, psychoanalysis, history and medicine, Postcolonial Pacific Writing develops an innovative framework specific to the literatures and cultures of the Pacific.\ \ An introductory chapter outlining trends and developments in Pacific...
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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.
1Postcolonial dystopias : race, allegory and the Polynesian body in the writing of Albert Wendt162'Gauguin is dead' : Sia Figiel and the Polynesian female body383Purifying the abject body : satire and scatology in Epeli Hau'ofa's Kisses in the Nederends614Alistair Te Ariki Campbell : mental illness and postcoloniality845Remoulding the body politic : Keri Hulme's The bone people1026Disease, colonialism and the national 'body' : Witi Ihimaera's The dream swimmer1277Language and the corporeal : Patricia Grace's Baby no-eyes1498The narcissistic body : Alan Duff's Once were warriors170Conclusion : reinscribing the Polynesian body191
