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The Pacific Muse - Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific (Paperback)
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The Pacific Muse - Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific (Paperback)
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The Pacific Muse offers a fresh perspective on a seductively
familiar topic: the colonial stereotype of the exotic Pacific
island woman. By tracing the evolution of female primitivism from
Western antiquity to twentieth-century Hollywood images, the book
sheds new light on our understanding of how and why this ideal has
persisted and the major role it has played in the colonization of
Pacific peoples. While examining colonial culture in its many
manifestations, from art, literature, and film to the journals of
explorers and missionaries, O'Brien rereads not only the canonical
texts of Pacific imperialism, but also lesser-known remnants of
this cultural heritage with an eye to what they reveal about
gender, sexuality, race, and femininity. Over its long history -
from the famous (and much romanticized) settlement of Tahitian
women and mutineers from the Bounty on Pitcairn Island in 1789 to
the South Seas romantic tradition, Gauguin, and beach culture -
notions of female primitivism changed in response to the
ideological watersheds of Christianity, Enlightenment science, and
race theories, as well as the development of democratic
nation-states, modernity, and colonialism. The Pacific Muse shows
the continuities and differences in representing colonized women
across geographical regions and historical epochs and highlights
the importance of sexualization and feminization in imperial
enterprises. Including 37 illustrations of Pacific women from early
etchings by shipboard artists to recent photographs, this panoramic
view of gendered Pacific history is enlightening reading for
cultural anthropologists, women's and gender studies scholars, and
historians of colonialism and the Pacific.
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