Mohanram, Radhika <br/><br/>
Black body :  women, colonialism, and space / 
Radhika Mohanram. 
 - Minneapolis ;  London :  University of Minnesota Press,  c1999. 
 - xx, 250 p. :  ill. b&w ;  22 cm. 
 - Public worlds ;  v. 6 .
 - Public worlds  v. 6 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Pt. 1. In theory -- <br/>Ch. 1. The cartography of bodies -- <br/>Ch. 2. The embodiment of blackness -- <br/>Ch. 3. Woman-body-nation-space -- <br/>Pt. 2. In the antipodes -- <br/>Ch. 4. The memory of place: Maori nationalism and feminism in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- <br/>Ch. 5. Place in My place: embodiment, Aboriginality, and Australia -- <br/>Ch. 6. Britannia's daughters: race, place and the Antipodean home -- <br/>Pt. 3. In conclusion -- <br/>Ch. 7. The postcolonial critic: Third World (con)texts/Fist World context -- <br/>Ch. 8. Coda: in postcoloniality. 
<br/><br/> 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.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0816635439 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human body--Social aspects<br/>Human body--Symbolic aspects<br/>Group identity<br/>Feminism<br/>Women<br/>Women, Black<br/>Race awareness<br/>Ethnicity<br/>Indigenous peoples<br/>Postcolonialism
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.42