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

Subject(s):

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Marbella International University Centre Library	305.42 MOH bla (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	11610

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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