Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Editor's Note vii
3. Contents ix
4. Illustrations xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Representation and Indigenous Subjectivity 12
8. 2 .Locating the Subject: The Indigenous Construction of Place 29
9. 3 .Colonizing Location: Representing Colonial Space 49
10. 4. Colonial Representation and Legal Discourse 89
11. 5 .The Subject as Child 100
12. 6. The Subject as Savage 124
13. 7. The Sexualized Native Body 140
14. 8. Writing Ourselves: Cultural Self- Representation in Contemporary Papua New Guinean Literature 162
15. 9. Writing Ourselves II: Representing the Post-Independence Papua New Guinea Landscape 189
16. Conclusion 205
17. Notes 211
18. Bibliography 213
19. Index 235