Rod Edmond

Representing the South Pacific

Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines representations of the South Pacific by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists, 1767 1914.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780521021135
• ISBN-10: 0521021138
• Artikelnr.: 21867506

Inhaltsangabe

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.