Black body : women, colonialism, and space / Radhika Mohanram.

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Published: St. Leonards, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 1999.
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Series:Australian cultural studies
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245 1 0 |a Black body :  |b women, colonialism, and space /  |c Radhika Mohanram. 
260 |a St. Leonards, NSW :  |b Allen & Unwin,  |c 1999. 
300 |a xx, 250 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 22 cm. 
440 0 |a Australian cultural studies 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p.203-243) and index. 
505 0 |a PART I IN THEORY: 1. The cartography of bodies -- 2. The embodiment of blackness -- 3. Woman-body-nation-space -- PART II IN THE ANTIPODES: 4. The memory of place: Maori nationalism and feminism in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- 5. Place in My Place: embodiment, Aboriginality and Australia -- 6. Britannia's daughters: race, place, and the Antipodean home -- PART III IN CONCLUSION: 7. The postcolonial critic: Third World (con)texts/First World contexts -- 8. Coda: in postcoloniality 
520 0 |a Discussion of Sally Morgan's 'My Place' in the context of an examination of the representation of women's bodies in the context of colonialism in New Zealand, Australia and Algeria; concepts of the body in contemporary theory; race and embodiment; reading of Morgan's text against the novels of Charles Dickens and other Victorian fiction; themes of miscegenation, incest, paternity, subjectivity and identity; racial difference and class; women, terra nullius and hybridisation. 
650 0 |a Aboriginal Australians  |x Ethnic identity. 
650 0 |a Māori  |x Ethnic identity. 
650 0 |a Human body  |x Social aspects. 
650 0 |a Human body  |x Symbolic aspects. 
650 0 |a Group identity. 
650 0 |a Feminism  |z Australia. 
650 0 |a Feminism  |z New Zealand. 
650 0 |a Postcolonialism. 
991 |a 2000-06-06 
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