9780521550543 - Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin von Edmond, Rod; Rod, Edmond (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. An excellent and necessary analysis of the exploitation of the region. Bound in black with gilt lettering to spine. Book in excellent condition. Dust jacket bears light wear to upper edge.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. Examines representations of the South Pacific by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists, 1767-1914. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 640. . 1997. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.