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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