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BL
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998357
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b752727
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| Main Entry
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Keown, Michelle,1972-
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| Title & Author
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Postcolonial Pacific writing : : representations of the body /\ Michelle Keown.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2005.
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| Series Statement
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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| ISBN
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0203506790
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: 9780203506790
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0415299578
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Postcolonial dystopias: race, allegory and the Polynesian body in the writing of Albert Wendt; 'Gauguin is dead': Sia Figiel and the Polynesian female body; Purifying the abject body: satire and scatology in Epeli Hau'ofa's Kisses in the Nederends; Alistair Te Ariki Campbell: mental illness and postcoloniality; Remoulding the body politic: Keri Hulme's The Bone People; Disease, colonialism and the national 'body': Witi Ihimaera's The Dream Swimmer; Language and the corporeal: Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Human body in literature.
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Pacific Island literature (English)-- History and criticism.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism-- Islands of the Pacific.
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Postcolonialism-- Oceania.
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Postcolonialism-- Polynesia.
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Human body in literature.
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Intellectual life.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Pacific Island literature (English)
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism.
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Islands of the Pacific, Intellectual life, 20th century.
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Oceania, Intellectual life, 20th century.
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Polynesia, Intellectual life, 20th century.
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Oceania.
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Pacific Ocean, Islands of the Pacific.
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Polynesia.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/99/0904
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| LC Classification
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PR9645.K46 2005eb
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