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Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the Body (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures) - Softcover

Book 7 of 80: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Keown, Michelle

 
9780415550505: Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the Body (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

Synopsis

This groundbreaking 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.

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About the Author

Michelle Keown is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely on Maori and Pacific writing.

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