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基本説明
Explores the history of the South Pacific traffic in human bodies from the eighteenth century to the present, from Captain Cook's Journals and Melville's novels to contemporary painting, popular cultura, and such movies as Jedda, meet me In St Louis and The Murmuring.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements. Foreword by Peter Hulme. Introduction. Part I: Circus, Trade & Spectacle. Part II: Manufacturing the 'Cannibal' Body. Part III: Captive White Bodies & the Colonial Imaginary in Terra Australis. Part IV: Film, Desire & the Colonised Body.