Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin Book

This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers and artists between 1767 and 1914. It draws on history, literature, art history, and anthropology in its study of different, often conflicting colonial discourses of the Pacific. Among its themes are the persistent mythmaking around the figure of Cook, the western obsession with Polynesian sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism and leprosy, the Pacific as a theatre for adventure, and as a setting for Europe's displaced fears of its own cultural extinction.Read More

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  • 0521550548
  • 9780521550543
  • Rod Edmond
  • 20 November 1997
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 320
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