Colonial and postcolonial incarceration / edited by Graeme Harper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harper, Graeme, 1945- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonization--History.

Colonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Continuum, [2001]

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786611298180

9781281298188

1281298182

9781847144058

1847144055

OCLC:

290600534