Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific - Discourses of Encounter

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 po

List of contents

List of figures

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 '¿ina

SUSAN NAJITA
Afterword: In Memoriam Teresia Teaiwa (1968-2017)

MICHELLE KEOWN AND MANDY TREAGUS

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

About the author

Michelle Keown is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Andrew Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Mandy Treagus is Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Summary

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 po

Product details

• Authors: Michelle (University of Edinburgh Keown, Michelle Taylor Keown
• Assisted by: Michelle Keown (Editor), Andrew Taylor (Editor), Mandy Treagus (Editor), Treagus Mandy (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367666583
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66658-3
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Asia, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature