The Word, the Pen, and the Pistol: Literature and Power in Tahiti,9780791447390

The Word, the Pen, and the Pistol: Literature and Power in Tahiti

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ISBN13: 9780791447390
ISBN10: 0791447391
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-11-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Author Biography

Robert Nicole is Lecturer in History/Politics at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Discourse or Intercourse: The Political Economy of Truth
1(14)
Tracing the Myth of Tahiti
15(20)
Islands, Paradise, and the West
16(4)
Utopias and Noble Savages
20(5)
Emerging Discourses of the South Pacific Other
25(2)
Buffon and Rousseau: Science, Philosophy, and Racism
27(8)
Bougainville: Actualizing Tahiti
35(30)
Description: Island Gardens and Fair Females
35(10)
Analysis: Laboratories and Guinea Pigs
45(20)
Discursive Sedimentation: Enchantment and Racism
65(34)
An Interlude with the Savage
65(8)
Lawyers, Journalists, Theologians, and Plagiarizers: Salon Literature
73(2)
A Piece of Wood in One Hand, a Dagger in the Other
75(7)
Gunboat Diplomacy in Tahiti and Exotic Literature in Paris
82(17)
Dreamers and Pilgrims
99(42)
Anthropology, Business, and Guns
99(5)
Loti: Desiring the Other
104(10)
Gauguin: Inscribing the Other
114(15)
Segalen: Speaking for the Other
129(12)
(De)Regulating the Myth
141(26)
Assimilation: Institutional Control and the Colonization of the Mind
142(6)
Authoriative Reports and Poetic Songs: Two Sides of the Same Coin
148(7)
TOMB: Tourism, Media, and Bomb
155(12)
Toward a Literature of Liberation
167(36)
Collaboration or Resistance
168(6)
Writing: Technological Colonialism or Collective Empowerment
174(5)
Maohi Literature in French
179(8)
The Vahine Replies
187(10)
Toward a Literature of Liberation
197(6)
Notes 203(6)
Bibliography 209(16)
Index 225

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