Imagining the Other: The Representation of the Papua New Guinean Subject 9780824862923
Much has been written about Papua New Guinea over the last century and too often in ways that legitimated or served colo
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Table of contents :
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
