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Imagining the Other : The Representation of the Papua New Guinean Subject / Regis Tove Stella.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pacific Islands Monographs SeriesPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 13 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824825751
  • 9780824862923
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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