TY - BOOK AU - Stella,Regis Tove TI - Imagining the Other: The Representation of the Papua New Guinean Subject T2 - Pacific Islands Monographs Series SN - 9780824825751 U1 - 305.8 PY - 2007///] CY - Honolulu : PB - University of Hawaii Press, KW - Europeans KW - Attitudes KW - Indigenous peoples in popular culture KW - Papua New Guinea KW - Pacific Islanders KW - First contact with Europeans KW - Papuans KW - Public opinion KW - SOCIAL SCIENCEĀ / Anthropology / Cultural & Social KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Much has been written about Papua New Guinea over the last century and too often in ways that legitimated or served colonial interests through highly pejorative and racist descriptions of Papua New Guineans. Paying special attention to early travel literature, works of fiction, and colonial reports, laws, and legislation, Regis Tove Stella reveals the complex and persistent network of discursive strategies deployed to subjugate the land and its people UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824862923 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824862923 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824862923/original ER -