Title:
Colonial and Postcolonial incarceration / edited by Graeme Harper.
Author:
Harper, Graeme
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-260) and index.
Introduction / Graeme Harper -- Criminal minds and felonious nations: colonial and postcolonial incarceration / Graeme Harper -- The circulation of bodies: slavery, maritime commerce and English captivity narratives in the early modern period / Daniel J. Vitkus -- Captivating reading: or captivity fiction as tourist guide to a non-Aboriginal Tasmania / Susan K. Martin -- Colonizing the mind: 'Leo Africanus' in the Renaissance and today / John C. Hawley -- Trading places: slave traders as slaves / Kerry Sinanan -- Urban captivity narratives: the literature of the yellow fever epidemics of the 1790s / Cynthia L. Ragland -- Transglobal translations: the Eliza Fraser and Rachel Plummer captivity narratives / Kay Schaffer, D'Arcy Randall -- Body and belonging(s): property in the captivity of Mungo Park / Emily A. Haddad -- Empires of light and dark: Japanese prisons and narratives of survival / James Whitlark -- Torture and the decolonization of French Algeria: nationalism, 'race' and violence during colonial incarceration / James D. Le Sueur -- The prisonhouse of language: literary production and detention in Kenya / Mary Ross -- Trapped daughters: American Chinatowns and Chinese American women / Di Gan -- 'On England's doorstep': colonialism, nationalism and carceral liminality in Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy / John Brannigan -- Apartheid prison narratives, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the construction of national (traumatic) memory / Shane Graham -- Conclusion / Graeme Harper.
This work deals with capture, imprisonment and punishment in colonial and post-colonial cultures. Each chapter focuses on a specific national or regional arena, providing insight into the social, economic and cultural conditions prevalent in colonial societies.
Publisher:
Continuum,
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
0826448658
9780826448651
0826449182
9780826449184
Subject:
Imprisonment -- History
Slavery -- History
Colonization -- History
Postcolonialism -- History
Imprisonment in literature
Imperialism in literature
17.93 themes and motives in literature.
Colonization.
Imperialism in literature.
Imprisonment.
Imprisonment in literature.
Postcolonialism.
Slavery.
Gevangenschap.
Kolonialisme.
Postkolonialisme.
Letterkunde.
Detention.
Detainees.
Prisons.
Slavery.
Colonialism.
Colonial history.
History.
History.
Contents:
Introduction / Criminal minds and felonious nations: colonial and postcolonial incarceration / The circulation of bodies: slavery, maritime commerce and English captivity narratives in the early modern period / Captivating reading: or captivity fiction as tourist guide to a non-Aboriginal Tasmania / Colonizing the mind: 'Leo Africanus' in the Renaissance and today / Trading places: slave traders as slaves / Urban captivity narratives: the literature of the yellow fever epidemics of the 1790s / Transglobal translations: the Eliza Fraser and Rachel Plummer captivity narratives / Body and belonging(s): property in the captivity of Mungo Park / Empires of light and dark: Japanese prisons and narratives of survival / Torture and the decolonization of French Algeria: nationalism, 'race' and violence during colonial incarceration / The prisonhouse of language: literary production and detention in Kenya / Trapped daughters: American Chinatowns and Chinese American women / 'On England's doorstep': colonialism, nationalism and carceral liminality in Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy / Apartheid prison narratives, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the construction of national (traumatic) memory / Conclusion /
Physical Description:
x, 264 pages : illustrations ;
Publication Date:
2001.
Log in
Help
