Table of Contents

Introduction: Writing the Body in Oceania
Chapter 1: The Instigation and the Perpetuation of the Mythical Oceanian Body
Chapter 2: Sexual Violence, Trauma, and the Damaged Oceanian Body
Chapter 3: Ecological Bodies: An Ecocritical Lens
Chapter 4: Writing Institutionalized Bodies: Breaking out of Confinement
Chapter 5: To Speak or not to Speak: Writing the Silent Body
Conclusion: Oceanian Literature, or The New Tattoo

About the Author

Julia L. Frengs is assistant professor of French at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Reviews

Corporeal Archipelagos is a profoundly significant and beautifully conceived study of the French-language work of four women from French Polynesia and New Caledonia that combines a thorough knowledge of this literature with a strong theoretical approach. Julia Frengs’s expertise on Oceanian authors Déwé Gorodé, Claudine Jacques, Ari’irau, and Chantal Spitz comes through in an unprecedented examination of the centrality of the body to questions with ecological, historical, national, political, sexual, and social import in an oft-overlooked region of Francophone women’s writing.
*Alison Rice, University of Notre Dame*

Anyone interested in Pacific Francophone literature should have this book, as it is a very complete work about the question of the Oceanian body in French speaking literature.
*Titaua Porcher-Wiart, Université de la Polynésie Française*