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1 online resource (x, 264 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-260) and index. |
Contents |
Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Criminal minds and felonious nations: colonial and postcolonial incarceration; CHAPTER TWO: The circulation of bodies: slavery, maritime commerce and English captivity narratives in the early modern period; CHAPTER THREE: Captivating reading: or captivity fiction as tourist guide to a non-Aboriginal Tasmania; CHAPTER FOUR: Colonizing the mind: 'Leo Africanus' in the Renaissance and today; CHAPTER FIVE: Trading places: slave traders as slaves. |
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CHAPTER SIX: Urban captivity narratives: the literature of the yellow fever epidemics of the 1790sCHAPTER SEVEN: Transglobal translations: the Eliza Fraser and Rachel Plummer captivity narratives; CHAPTER EIGHT: Body and belonging(s): property in the captivity of Mungo Park; CHAPTER NINE: Empires of light and dark: Japanese prisons and narratives of survival; CHAPTER TEN: Torture and the decolonization of French Algeria: nationalism, 'race' and violence during colonial incarceration; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The prisonhouse of language: literary production and detention in Kenya. |
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CHAPTER TWELVE: Trapped daughters: American Chinatowns and Chinese American womenCHAPTER THIRTEEN: 'On England's doorstep': colonialism, nationalism and carceral liminality in Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Apartheid prison narratives, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the construction of national (traumatic) memory; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Conclusion; Selected bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y. |
Summary |
The first study to deal extensively and comparatively with capture, imprisonment and punishment in colonial and postcolonial cultures. Offering textual as well as historical analysis, each chapter focuses on a specific national or regional arena. Each also provides foundational insight into the social, economic and cultural conditions prevalent in colonial societies. Chapters, written by a wide range of international specialists, include coverage of the early modern to the contemporary period as well as coverage of cultural arenas from Europe to Asia, Australia, northern and southern Africa an. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Imprisonment -- History.
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Imprisonment. |
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History. |
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Slavery -- History.
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Slavery. |
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Colonization -- History.
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Colonization. |
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Postcolonialism -- History.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Imprisonment in literature.
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Imprisonment in literature. |
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Author |
Harper, Graeme.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Colonial and Post-Colonial incarceration. New York : Continuum, 2001 (DLC) 2001017324 |
ISBN |
1847144055 (electronic book) |
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9781847144058 (electronic book) |
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9780826449184 |
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9781847144058 |
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0826448658 |
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0826449182 (paperback) |
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