Body Trade

Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific

By: Barbara Creed (Editor), Jeanette Hoorn (Editor)

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Paperback | 12 April 2002 | Edition Number 1

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"Body Trade" explores the history of the South Pacific traffic in human bodies from the eighteenth century to the present. Scholars from art history, cultural studies, anthropology, literature, and film examine the 'captive body' as it is represented in a range of media-----from Captain Cook's Journals and Melville's novels to contemporary painting, popular culture, and such movies as "Jedda, Meet Me In St Louis" and "The Murmuring." Revisiting Euorpe's colonial project in the Pacific, "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.

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"Both camps should welcome this compendium of essays that takes as its focus the notion of the subjugated, captive body, a central contruct in recent debates in feminist theory, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, and theories of narrativity.Body Trade is the first book to present theories of the body in relation to the colonial histories of Australia and the Pacific. The ContemporaryPacific Fall, 2003."

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Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Circus, Trade & Spectacle	p. 1
'Rare work amongst the professors': the capture of indigenous skulls within phrenological knowledge in early colonial Australia	p. 3
Chained to their signs: remembering breastplates	p. 24
How can one be Oceanian? The display of Polynesian 'cannibals' in France	p. 36
Captors or captives? The Australian Native Mounted Police	p. 47
Manufacturing the 'Cannibal' Body	p. 67
Narratives of the self: Chevalier Peter Dillon's Fijian cannibal adventures	p. 69
Cannibalising indigenous texts: headhunting and fantasy in Ion L. Idriess', Coral Sea adventures	p. 112
Lines of fright: fear, perception and the 'seen' of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee	p. 126
Captive White Bodies & the Colonial Imaginary in Terra Australis	p. 149
Captivating Fictions: Younah! A Tasmanian Aboriginal Romance of the Cataract Gorge	p. 151
'Cabin'd, cribb'd, and confin'd': the White Woman of Gipps Land and Bungalene	p. 167
Material culture and the 'signs' of captive white women	p. 180
Film, Desire & the Colonised Body	p. 193
Captivity, melancholia, and diaspora in Marlon Fuentes' Bontoc Eulogy: revisiting Meet Me In St. Louis	p. 195
Breeding out the black: Jedda and the stolen generations in Australia	p. 208
Blame and shame: the hidden history of the comfort women of World War II	p. 231
Endnotes	p. 239
List of illustrations	p. 283
Notes on the contributors	p. 285
Index	p. 289
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