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
