Postcolonial Pacific writing
Subtitle: representations of the body
By: Michelle Keown.
Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Pacific Island literature (English) -- History and criticism; Postcolonialism -- Islands of the Pacific; Postcolonialism in literature; Postcolonialism -- Polynesia; Postcolonialism -- Oceania; Body, Human, in literature; Islands of the Pacific -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Polynesia -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Oceania -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.