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Sexual Encounters - Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities (Hardcover)
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Sexual Encounters - Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities (Hardcover)
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European literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has
long viewed the Pacific as the site of heterosexual pleasures. The
received wisdom of these accounts is based on the idea of female
bodies unrestrained by civilization. In a revisionist history of
the Pacific zone and some of its preeminent Western imaginists, Lee
Wallace suggests that the fantasy of the male body, rather than of
the free-loving female, provides the underlying libidinal structure
for many of the classic "encounter" narratives from Cook to
Melville. The subject of Sexual Encounters is sexual fantasy,
particularly male homoerotic fantasy found in the literature and
art of South Sea exploration, colonization, and settlement. Working
at the boundaries of a number of disciplines such as queer theory,
anthropology, postcolonial studies, and history, Wallace engages in
subversive readings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Pacific
voyage journals (Cook in Hawaii and a Russian expedition to the
Marquesas), an argument concerning Gauguin's treatment of female
figures, and a discussion of homosexuality and Samoan
male-to-female transgenderism. These phenomena, Wallace asserts,
demonstrate the continuity and dissonance between Western and
Pacific sexual categories. She reconstructs Pacific history through
the inevitable entanglement of metropolitan and indigenous sexual
regimes and ultimately argues for the importance of the Pacific in
defining modern sexual categories.
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