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Representing the South Pacific : colonial discourse from Cook to Gauguin /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edmond, Rod
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Killing the god: the afterlife of Cook's death
  • 3. Mutineers and beachcombers
  • 4. Missionary endeavours
  • 5. Trade and adventure
  • 6. Taking up with kanakas: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific
  • 7. Skin and bones: Jack London's diseased Pacific
  • 8. The French Pacific
  • 9. Epilogue.