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Article: Black Body: Women, Colonialism and Space.(Review)
- Article from:
- The Australian Journal of Politics and History
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Black Body: Women, Colonialism and Space. By Radhika Mohanram (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1999), xx + 250 pp. $35.00
In Black Body, Radhika Mohanram highlights the importance of place in the construction of female black bodies by both colonisers and indigenous activists. She does this, first and foremost, through a series of unusually approachable textual analyses of postcolonial theory and strategically chosen Western and indigenous texts. While Black Body is less successful in its attempts to theorise about indigenous experience in "the Antipodes", Mohanram's often startling critiques of theory are bound to spark interest in the problem of adapting ...