Voyaging through the Contemporary Pacific
Voyaging through the Contemporary Pacific
Description
Long known for its vast geographic and cultural diversity, the Pacific Islands region today is witness to some of the most dramatic histories of decolonization and postcolonial development anywhere in the world. As new nations emerge_and struggle to emerge_political change is everywhere marked by efforts to reconceptualize identities, histories, and futures. In the midst of these transformations, this volume brings together a diverse range of analysis and commentary that challenge tired and simplistic paradigms of Oarea studyO and urge us to rethink the ways we imagine and represent the Pacific. The essays also challenge the conventions of scholarship itself, offering provocative reflections on the politics and ethics of research and writing across disciplines. The authors examine a range of subjects relevant to formations of cultural and regional identity, including the politics and poetics of history, of tradition, and of cultural expressions in literature, film, and the arts. In doing so, their discussions open up new ways of thinking about the Pacific as well as about relations between tradition and modernity, and about processes of Omodernization O and globalization everywhere.
Table of Contents
Part 2 PART I: Re-Imagining the Pacific
Chapter 3 Framing the Islands: Knowledge and Power in Changing Australian Images of the South Pacific
Chapter 4 Indigenous knowledge and Empowerment: Rural Development Examined from Within
Chapter 5 bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans
Chapter 6 The Ocean in Us
Part 7 PART II: The Politics and Poetics of History in the Pacific
Chapter 8 History in the Pacific
Chapter 9 Simply Chamorro: Telling Tales of Demise and Survival in Guam
Chapter 10 In Order to Win their Friendship: Renegotiating First Contact
Chapter 11 Active Agents versus Passive Victims: Decolonized Histiography or Problematic Paradigm
Part 12 PART III: Cultural Politics
Chapter 13 Creating the Past: Custom and Identity in the Contemporary Pacific
Chapter 14 Natives and Anthropologists: The Colonial Struggle
Chapter 15 Reply to Trask
Chapter 16 Text Bites and the R-Word: The Politics of Representing Scholorship
Chapter 17 Specters of Inauthenticity
Chapter 18 The Sin at Awarua
Part 19 PART IV: Cultural Media(tions)
Chapter 20 In Whose Face?: An Essay on the Work of Alan Duff
Chapter 21 Romanticizing Colonialism: Power and Pleasure in Jane Campion's The Piano
Chapter 22 Radio and the Redefinition of Kastom in Vanuatu
Chapter 23 Pacific-Based Virtual Communities: Rotuma on the World Wide Web
Product details
| Published | 08 Nov 2000 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 456 |
| ISBN | 9781461705864 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Series | Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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