Imagining the Other : : The Representation of the Papua New Guinean Subject / / Regis Tove Stella.
Much has been written about Papua New Guinea over the last century and too often in ways that legitimated or served colonial interests through highly pejorative and racist descriptions of Papua New Guineans. Paying special attention to early travel literature, works of fiction, and colonial reports,...
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Pacific Islands Monographs Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 13 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Editor's Note
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Representation and Indigenous Subjectivity
- 2 .Locating the Subject: The Indigenous Construction of Place
- 3 .Colonizing Location: Representing Colonial Space
- 4. Colonial Representation and Legal Discourse
- 5 .The Subject as Child
- 6. The Subject as Savage
- 7. The Sexualized Native Body
- 8. Writing Ourselves: Cultural Self- Representation in Contemporary Papua New Guinean Literature
- 9. Writing Ourselves II: Representing the Post-Independence Papua New Guinea Landscape
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index