Representing the South Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representing the South Pacific write by Rod Edmond. This book was released on 1997-11-20. Representing the South Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists between 1767 and 1914 by drawing on history, literature, art history, and anthropology. Edmond engages with colonial texts and postcolonial theory, criticising both for their failure to acknowledge the historical specificity of colonial discourses and cultural encounters, and for continuing to see indigenous cultures in essentially passive or reactive terms. The book offers a detailed and grounded 'reading back' of these colonial discourses into the metropolitan centres which gave rise to them, while resisting the idea that all representations of other cultures are merely self-representations. Among its themes are the persistent myth-making around the figure of Cook, the western obsession with Polynesian sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism, and leprosy, and the Pacific as a theatre for adventure and as a setting for Europe's displaced fears of its own cultural extinction.
The South Pacific Narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London
The South Pacific Narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The South Pacific Narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London write by Lawrence Phillips. This book was released on 2012-07-26. The South Pacific Narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From 1888 to 1915 Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London were uniquely placed to witness and record the imperial struggle for the South Pacific. Engaging the major European colonial empires and the USA, the struggle questioned ideas of liberty, racial identity and class like few other arenas of the time. Exploring a unique moment in South Pacific and Western history through the work of Stevenson and London, this study assesses the impact of their national identities on works like The Amateur Emigrant and Adventure; discusses their attitudes towards colonialism, race and class; shows how they negotiated different cultures and peoples in their writing and considers where both writers are placed in the Western tradition of writing about the Pacific. By contextualizing Stevenson's and London's South Pacific work, this study reveals two critical voices of late nineteenth-century and early 20th-century colonialism that deserve to stand beside their contemporary Joseph Conrad in shaping contemporary attitudes towards imperialism, race, and class.
South Pacific Literature
South Pacific Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook South Pacific Literature write by Subramani. This book was released on 1992. South Pacific Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
New Politics in the South Pacific
New Politics in the South Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Politics in the South Pacific write by Fay Alailima. This book was released on 1994. New Politics in the South Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusses on the newer forces on the political scene within the Pacific Islands, examining the evolving impact of women in politics and relations with the wider world.
The South Pacific
The South Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The South Pacific write by South Pacific regional environment programme. This book was released on 1984. The South Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
