Rifled Sanctuaries

Author : Bill Pearson
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781775581437

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Rifled Sanctuaries by Bill Pearson Pdf

The Pacific Islands began to appear in Western literature soon after European navigators made landfall there. From the first, there was seldom a statement of plain facts. Explorers brought their own viewpoints while editors, poets and novelists went on to interpret and moralise the first accounts. Portraying Pacific peoples as sensual, indolent, childlike and &– frequently &– wicked, such stories implied the duty of Europeans to rule and of the natives to be grateful. Modified though it sometimes was by the more accepting attitudes of beachcombers, by the exploitative activities of traders, and throgh the romantic eyes of erotic novelists, this conception of Pacific Islanders persisted through the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth.

Author : Bill Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Islands of the Pacific
ISBN : OCLC:233699227

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Rifled Sanctuaries by Bill Pearson Pdf

Author : Nicholas Halter
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760464158

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Australian Travellers in the South Seas by Nicholas Halter Pdf

This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It offers a range of valuable insights into continuities and changes in Australian regional perspectives, showing that ordinary Australians were more closely connected to the Pacific Islands than has previously been acknowledged. Addressing the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, this cultural history probes issues of nation and empire, race and science, commerce and tourism by focusing on significant episodes and encounters in history. This is a foundational text for future studies of Australia’s relations with the Pacific, and histories of travel generally.

Author : Paul Millar
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775581314

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No Fretful Sleeper by Paul Millar Pdf

Outlining the career of one of New Zealand's most distinguished fiction writers and sharpest critics, this fascinating narrative details the life and work of Bill Pearson. Beginning with his difficult childhood in a society dominated by the New Zealand working man, this gripping biography follows Pearson through his long and distinguished academic career, the penning of his one major and celebrated novel, and his momentous decision to trade a dental career for World War II combat. Touching on his time in London and the native &“fretful sleepers,&” this engrossing account is emblematic of the intellectual culture, left-wing politics, and growing acceptance of both homosexual identity and Maori and Pacific Island culture in 20th-century New Zealand.

Author : James Fairhead
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300213256

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The Captain and "the Cannibal" by James Fairhead Pdf

Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired, and Morrell abducted young Dako, a hostage so shocked by the white complexions of his kidnappers that he believed he had been captured by the dead. This gripping book unveils for the first time the strange odyssey the two men shared in ensuing years. The account is uniquely told, as much from the captive’s perspective as from the American’s. Upon returning to New York, Morrell exhibited Dako as a “cannibal” in wildly popular shows performed on Broadway and along the east coast. The proceeds helped fund a return voyage to the South Pacific—the captain hoping to establish trade with Dako’s assistance, and Dako seizing his only chance to return home to his unmapped island. Supported by rich, newly found archives, this wide-ranging volume traces the voyage to its extraordinary ends and en route decrypts Morrell’s ambiguous character, the mythic qualities of Dako’s life, and the two men's infusion into American literature—Dako inspired Melville’s Queequeg, for example. The encounters confound indigenous peoples and Americans alike as both puzzle over what it is to be truly human and alive.

Author : C. Balme
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230599536

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Pacific Performances by C. Balme Pdf

This new study explores the history of cross-cultural performative encounters in the Pacific from the Eighteenth century to the present. It examines Western theatrical representations of Pacific cultures and investigates how Pacific Islanders used their own cultural performances to negotiate the colonial situation.

Author : Paul Lyons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134264148

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American Pacificism by Paul Lyons Pdf

This provocative analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians from the nineteenth century to the present, argues that imperial fantasies have glossed over a complex, violent history. It introduces the concept of ‘American Pacificism’, a theoretical framework that draws on contemporary theories of friendship, hospitality and tourism to refigure established debates around ‘orientalism’ for an Oceanian context. Paul Lyons explores American-Islander relations and traces the ways in which two fundamental conceptions of Oceania have been entwined in the American imagination. On the one hand, the Pacific islands are seen as economic and geopolitical ‘stepping stones’, rather than ends in themselves, whilst on the other they are viewed as ends of the earth or ‘cultural limits’, unencumbered by notions of sin, antitheses to the industrial worlds of economic and political modernity. However, both conceptions obscure not only Islander cultures, but also innovative responses to incursion. The islands instead emerge in relation to American national identity, as places for scientific discovery, soul-saving and civilizing missions, manhood-testing adventure, nuclear testing and eroticized furloughs between maritime work and warfare. Ranging from first contact and the colonial archive through to postcolonialism and global tourism, this thought-provoking volume draws upon a wide, rewarding collection of literary works, historical and cultural scholarship, government documents and tourist literature.

Author : Pausanias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Greece
ISBN : CORNELL:31924108200621

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Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias Pdf

Author : Katherine Brisbane,Ravi Chaturvedi,Ramendu Majumdar,Chua Soo Pong,Minoru Tanokura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134929788

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The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre by Katherine Brisbane,Ravi Chaturvedi,Ramendu Majumdar,Chua Soo Pong,Minoru Tanokura Pdf

This volume featrues over 250,000 words and more than 125 photographs identifying and defining theatre in more than 30 countries from India to Uzbekistan, from Thailand to New Zealand and featuring extensive documentation on contemporary Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Australian theatre.

Author : Richard Lansdown
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780824829025

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Strangers in the South Seas by Richard Lansdown Pdf

Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the earth-such ideas would have a long life and a deep impact in both the Pacific and the West. With the discovery of Tahiti in 1767 another powerful myth was added to this collection: the noble savage. For the first time Westerners were confronted by a people who seemed happier than themselves. This revolution in the human sciences was accompanied by one in the natural sciences after Darwin's momentous visit to the Galapagos Islands. The Pacific produced other challenges for nineteenth-century researchers on race and culture, and for those intent on exporting their religions to this immense quarter of the globe. As the century wore on, the region presented opportunities and dilemmas for the imperial powers, a process was accelerated by the Pacific War between 1941 and 1945. Strangers in the South Seas recounts and illustrates this story using a wealth of primary texts. It includes generous excerpts from the work of explorers, soldiers, naturalists, anthropologists, artists, and writers--some famous, some obscure. It shows how "the Great South Sea" has been an irreplaceable "distant mirror" of the West and its intellectual obsessions since the Renaissance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018444752

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The Parliamentary and Administrative Reformer's Handbook; Or Downing Street Thrown Open to the Public by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pausanias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Greece
ISBN : UCBK:C099403988

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Pausanias's Description of Greece: Translation by Pausanias Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968689

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Nanyo-orientalism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eugene Benson,L.W. Conolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1950 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134468485

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Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English by Eugene Benson,L.W. Conolly Pdf

" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.

Author : Terry Sturm
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781552381281

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An Unsettled Spirit by Terry Sturm Pdf

Under the name of G.B. Lancaster, Edith Lyttleton wrote over a dozen novels and some 250 short stories, mostly narratives of romance and adventure set in the remote back country of New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. This book is a fascinating account of the harsh experience of a gifted woman writer forced to earn her own living but struggling to move beyond the limits of potboilers to more serious work.