Rod Edmond
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
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...