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 early-to-mid twentieth century, also exploring indigenous Pacific responses to Anglo-American imperialism during and beyond the decolonization period of the late twentieth century. While the relationship between Britain and the US has been analyzed through prominent forms of economic and cultural exchange between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, there is to date no sustained study of the relationship between British and US colonial expansion into the Pacific, which became central to ideas of developing ‘European’ modernity in the late eighteenth century and has played a pivotal in the history of Anglo-American colonialism, from the establishment of plantation economies and settler colonies in the nineteenth century to various forms of military imperialism during and beyond the twentieth century. The wide range of discursive and expressive modes explored in this collection makes for a rich and multifaceted analysis of representations of, and responses to, Anglo-American imperialism, and is in keeping with the current interdisciplinary turn in postcolonial studies.
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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 po
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List of figuresAcknowledgementsForeword: Making and Unmaking the Anglo-American PacificROB WILSONIntroductionMICHELLE KEOWN, ANDREW TAYLOR AND MANDY TREAGUSPART IMilitary, Religious and Cultural Imperialism in Pacific Literature1 War and Redemption: Militarism, Religion and Anticolonialism in Pacific LiteratureMICHELLE KEOWN2 Reading Imperialism in the Pacific: The Prose of Joseph Veramu and the Poetry of Sia FigielTERESIA TEAIWA3 Slow Walking, Fast Talking: PI Poetry and ImperialismsSELINA TUSITALA MARSHPART IITransatlantic Trajectories in Pacific film, photography and the visual arts4 It’s Raining in Pago: The Body, Religion and Race in W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘Rain’ and its Film AdaptationsMANDY TREAGUS5 The Voyager’s Sublime: Kodachrome and Pacific TourismJEFFREY GEIGER6 Culture and Imperialism: John Pule’s Painting, 1990-2010NICHOLAS THOMASPART IIICross-cultural Alliances and Tensions in Pacific Discourse7 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 LYONS8 Cowboys and Coconuts: Robert Dean Frisbie in the Colonial PacificPAUL SHARRAD9 Annexation and the Environment: Writing, Reading, Reanimating ‘ĀinaSUSAN NAJITAAfterword: In Memoriam Teresia Teaiwa (1968-2017)MICHELLE KEOWN AND MANDY TREAGUSBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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ISBN
9780367666583
Publisert
2020-09-30
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Routledge
Vekt
490 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
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U, 05
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Engelsk
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Heftet
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246

Biographical note

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.