Table of contents : Editor's Note Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Representation and Indigenous Subjectivity 2 .Locating the Subject: The Indigenous Construction of Place 3 .Colonizing Location: Representing Colonial Space 4. Colonial Representation and Legal Discourse 5 .The Subject as Child 6. The Subject as Savage 7. The Sexualized Native Body 8. Writing Ourselves: Cultural Self- Representation in Contemporary Papua New Guinean Literature 9. Writing Ourselves II: Representing the Post-Independence Papua New Guinea Landscape Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index