Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:080148832X
ISBN13:9780801488320
Release Date:May 2003
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.61 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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A new dimension to colonisation
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Lee Wallace interprets a wealth of contemporary pacific cultural and literary criticism and independent research and analysis to produce a lucid yet pithy work that employs the ground-breaking lens of sexual identity to provide a new dimension to our understanding of the colonisation of the Pacific and the associated consequences for both European and Pacific cultural institutions and traditions.
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