Black body

women, colonialism and space

Plot

Discussion of Sally Morgan's 'My Place' in the context of an examination of the representation of women's bodies in the context of colonialism in New Zealand, Australia and Algeria; concepts of the body in contemporary theory; race and embodiment; reading of Morgan's text against the novels of Charles Dickens and other Victorian fiction; themes of miscegenation, incest, paternity, subjectivity and identity; racial difference and class; women, terra nullius and hybridisation.