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Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific Discourses of Encounter

266 Pages

by Routledge

266 Pages

by Routledge

266 Pages

by Routledge

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This interdisciplinary collection explores the confluence of American and British (neo)imperalism in the Pacific, as represented in various forms of Pacific discourse including literature, ethnography, film, painting, autobiography, journalism, and environmental discourse. It investigates the alliances and rivalries between these two colonial powers during the crucial transition period of the... Read more

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Acknowledgements

Foreword: Making and Unmaking the Anglo-American Pacific

ROB WILSON

Introduction

MICHELLE KEOWN, ANDREW TAYLOR AND MANDY TREAGUS

PART I

Military, Religious and Cultural Imperialism in Pacific Literature

1 War and Redemption: Militarism, Religion and Anticolonialism in Pacific Literature

MICHELLE KEOWN

2 Reading Imperialism in the Pacific: The Prose of Joseph Veramu and the Poetry of Sia Figiel

TERESIA TEAIWA

3 Slow Walking, Fast Talking: PI Poetry and Imperialisms

SELINA TUSITALA MARSH

PART II

Transatlantic Trajectories in Pacific film, photography and the visual arts

4 It’s Raining in Pago: The Body, Religion and Race in W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘Rain’ and its Film Adaptations

MANDY TREAGUS

5 The Voyager’s Sublime: Kodachrome and Pacific Tourism

JEFFREY GEIGER

6 Culture and Imperialism: John Pule’s Painting, 1990-2010

NICHOLAS THOMAS

PART III

Cross-cultural Alliances and Tensions in Pacific Discourse

7 Lunchtime at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Notes on Working Friendships among Natives and Non-Natives and Imperial Anglo-Americanism in Territorial Hawai‘i (1900-1959)

PAUL LYONS

8 Cowboys and Coconuts: Robert Dean Frisbie in the Colonial Pacific

PAUL SHARRAD

9 Annexation and the Environment: Writing, Reading, Reanimating ‘Āina

SUSAN NAJITA

Afterword: In Memoriam Teresia Teaiwa (1968-2017)

MICHELLE KEOWN AND MANDY TREAGUS

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index