Colonial and Post-Colonial Incarceration
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Colonial and Post-Colonial Incarceration

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Colonial and Post-Colonial Incarceration

About this book

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 and North America.

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Publisher
Continuum
Year
2001
Print ISBN
9780826448651
eBook ISBN
9781847144058
Edition
1
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia del mundo

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Contributors
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. CHAPTER ONE: Criminal minds and felonious nations: colonial and postcolonial incarceration
  6. CHAPTER TWO: The circulation of bodies: slavery, maritime commerce and English captivity narratives in the early modern period
  7. CHAPTER THREE: Captivating reading: or captivity fiction as tourist guide to a non-Aboriginal Tasmania
  8. CHAPTER FOUR: Colonizing the mind: ‘Leo Africanus’ in the Renaissance and today
  9. CHAPTER FIVE: Trading places: slave traders as slaves
  10. CHAPTER SIX: Urban captivity narratives: the literature of the yellow fever epidemics of the 1790s
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN: Transglobal translations: the Eliza Fraser and Rachel Plummer captivity narratives
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT: Body and belonging(s): property in the captivity of Mungo Park
  13. CHAPTER NINE: Empires of light and dark: Japanese prisons and narratives of survival
  14. CHAPTER TEN: Torture and the decolonization of French Algeria: nationalism, ‘race’ and violence during colonial incarceration
  15. CHAPTER ELEVEN: The prisonhouse of language: literary production and detention in Kenya
  16. CHAPTER TWELVE: Trapped daughters: American Chinatowns and Chinese American women
  17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: ‘On England’s doorstep’: colonialism, nationalism and carceral liminality in Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy
  18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Apartheid prison narratives, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the construction of national (traumatic) memory
  19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Conclusion
  20. Selected bibliography
  21. Index

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