ABSTRACT
Body Trade exposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and intriguiung comtribution to the study of the postcolonial body.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|65 pages
Circus, Trade & Spectacle
part 2|82 pages
Manufacturing the ‘Cannibal' Body
part 3|43 pages
Captive White Bodies & the Colonial Imaginary in Terra Australis
part 4|46 pages
Film, Desire & the Colonised Body