{"product_id":"representing-the-south-pacific-colonial-discourse-from-cook-to-gauguin-paperback-9780521021135","title":"Representing the South Pacific; Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521021135","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRepresenting the South Pacific\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eColonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines representations of the South Pacific by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists, 1767–1914.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRod Edmond (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521021135, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 October 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 12 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.4 x 1.9 cm, 0.492 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'A finely attuned account of the way Europeans represented the Pacific world from Cook to Gauguin … A masterly survey … A fascinating account.' Bernard Smith, Australian Book Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Killing the god: the afterlife of Cook's death\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mutineers and beachcombers\u003cbr\u003e 4. Missionary endeavours\u003cbr\u003e 5. Trade and adventure\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Taking up with kanakas': Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific\u003cbr\u003e 7. Skin and Bones: Jack London's diseased Pacific\u003cbr\u003e 8. The French Pacific\u003cbr\u003e 9. Epilogue.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004597326104,"sku":"9780521021135","price":41.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521021135i.jpg?v=1694963500","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/representing-the-south-pacific-colonial-discourse-from-cook-to-gauguin-paperback-9780521021135","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}