附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
摘要: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.