Corporeal Archipelagos - Writing the Body in Francophone Oceanian Womens Literature

This book examines representations of the body in the works of four Oceanian women authors of French expression, considering postcolonial and feminist theoretical concepts in relation to Oceanian literary production.

List of contents

Introduction: Writing the Body in Oceania
Chapter 1: The Instigation and the Perpetuation of the Mythical Oceanian Body
Chapter 2: Sexual Violence, Trauma, and the Damaged Oceanian Body
Chapter 3: Ecological Bodies: An Ecocritical Lens
Chapter 4: Writing Institutionalized Bodies: Breaking out of Confinement
Chapter 5: To Speak or not to Speak: Writing the Silent Body
Conclusion: Oceanian Literature, or The New Tattoo

About the author

By Julia Frengs

Summary

This book examines representations of the body in the works of four Oceanian women authors of French expression, considering postcolonial and feminist theoretical concepts in relation to Oceanian literary production.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Frengs
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781498542296
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4229-6
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France; After the Empire: The Francoph; After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies