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

By:

Mohanram, Radhika

Material type:

TextSeries: Public worlds ; v. 6Publication details: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, c1999.Description: xx, 250 p. : ill. b&w ; 22 cmContent type:

text

ISBN:

0816635439

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DDC classification:

305.42

Contents:

Pt. 1. In theory -- Ch. 1. The cartography of bodies -- Ch. 2. The embodiment of blackness -- Ch. 3. Woman-body-nation-space -- Pt. 2. In the antipodes -- Ch. 4. The memory of place: Maori nationalism and feminism in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Ch. 5. Place in My place: embodiment, Aboriginality, and Australia -- Ch. 6. Britannia's daughters: race, place and the Antipodean home -- Pt. 3. In conclusion -- Ch. 7. The postcolonial critic: Third World (con)texts/Fist World context -- Ch. 8. Coda: in postcoloniality.

Summary: Billy Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy makes a great deal of money as an optometrist, and on his wedding night he is kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore. So begins a modern classic by a master storyteller.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. In theory --
Ch. 1. The cartography of bodies --
Ch. 2. The embodiment of blackness --
Ch. 3. Woman-body-nation-space --
Pt. 2. In the antipodes --
Ch. 4. The memory of place: Maori nationalism and feminism in Aotearoa/New Zealand --
Ch. 5. Place in My place: embodiment, Aboriginality, and Australia --
Ch. 6. Britannia's daughters: race, place and the Antipodean home --
Pt. 3. In conclusion --
Ch. 7. The postcolonial critic: Third World (con)texts/Fist World context --
Ch. 8. Coda: in postcoloniality.

Billy Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy makes a great deal of money as an optometrist, and on his wedding night he is kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore. So begins a modern classic by a master storyteller.

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