ABSTRACT
This major new interdisciplinary study focuses on the representation of the body in the work of eight of Polynesia's most significant contemporary writers. 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|22 pages
Postcolonial dystopias
Race, allegory and the Polynesian body in the writing of Albert Wendt
chapter 3|23 pages
Purifying the abject body
Satire and scatology in Epeli Hau’ofa’s Kisses in the Nederends
chapter 6|22 pages
Disease, colonialism and the national ‘body’: Witi Ihimaera’s The Dream
Witi Ihimaera’s The Dream
