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03565aam a2200385Ki 4500 001 9E96D436580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 171009s2018 mdu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781498542296 020 $a 1498542298 035 $a (OCoLC)1005687920 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d IAK $d IOG $d YDX $d HTM $d SILO 043 $a po----- 050 4 $a PN849.O26 $b C67 2018 082 04 $a 840.9/9287 $2 23 100 1 $a Frengs, Julia L, $e author. 245 10 $a Corporeal archipelagos : $b writing the body in francophone Oceanian women's literature / $c Julia L. Frengs. 264 1 $a Lanham : $b Lexington Books, $c [2018] 300 $a ix, 211 pages ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a After the empire 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-204) and index. 520 $a This work offers an examination of contemporary literature from the French-speaking Oceanian region through a focus on four of its most prolific women writers and the ways in which these writers negotiate identity construction through one of the most powerful identity markers in the region: the body. The question of the body - how one is to make meaning through corporeality, how one represents the body, and what role the body plays in identity construction - is not only a question with which feminists and postcolonial theorists have been grappling for nearly a half-century. The body is of integral significance to autochthonous Oceanian societies, whose views of corporeality are not built upon a dualistic mind-body binary that has influenced Western thought since the era of Descartes, but rather on a cosmological, epistemological axis that comprehends the body as intertwined with symbolic, social, and ideological understandings of identity. Beginning with an analysis of the ways in which the Oceanian body has been portrayed and consumed as an exotic object of fascination throughout three centuries of European literature, the book examines the myriad methods by which women writers break away from exotic myths and reappropriate the body as a powerful tool that enables them to confront the question of self-definition in French-speaking Oceania. The authors examined in this book employ culturally, racially, and sexually specific bodies in the creation of an original, confrontational literature that transgresses historically and culturally imposed boundaries, audaciously inserting their voices, the voices of Oceania, into the postcolonial francophone literary scene. 505 0 $a Introduction: Writing the body in Oceania -- The instigation and perpetuation of the mythical Oceanian body -- Sexual violence, trauma, and the damaged Oceanian body -- Ecological bodies : an ecocritical lens -- Writing institutionalized bodies : breaking out of confinement -- To speak or not to speak : writing the silent body -- Conclusion: Oceanian literature, or The new tattoo. 600 10 $a GorodeÌ, DeÌweÌ, $d 1949- $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Jacques, Claudine $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Ari'irau $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Spitz, Chantal T., $d 1954- $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Pacific Island literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Pacific Island literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Body image in literature. 830 0 $a After the empire. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019021020.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9E96D436580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search