Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415938848 ISBN 13: 9780415938846

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Body Trade exposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and intriguiung comtribution to the study of the postcolonial body.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Creed is associate professor and head of the cinema studies program in the department of fine arts at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis and has written on Hollywood film in a range of prestigious journals. Jeanette Hoorn teaches in the cinema studies program at the University of Melbourne.

Review:

"Both camps should welcome this compendium of essays that takes as its focus the notion of the subjugated, captive body, a central contruct in recent debates in feminist theory, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, and theories of narrativity."Body Trade is the first book to present theories of the body in relation to the colonial histories of Australia and the Pacific. "The Contemporary Pacific Fall, 2003."

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0415938848
• ISBN 13: 9780415938846
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Creed Barbara, Hoorn Jeanette