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The Word Pen, and the Pistol
Robert Nicole
其他書名
Literature and Power in Tahiti
出版State University of New York Press, 2000-11-02
主題Literary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / European / FrenchLiterary Criticism / Australian & Oceanian
ISBN07914918119780791491812
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sN74cBBLePYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Word, The Pen, and the Pistol explores the relationships between history, power, knowledge, and certain cultural productions such as literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Borrowing from the theoretical works of Michel Foucault and Edward Said, the book reveals in the French colonial territory of French Polynesia the complicit relationship between imperialism and colonial texts, between the image of Tahiti as "paradise on earth" and other instruments of management, and between discourses such as the "Noble Savage" and various technologies of discipline and ordering. In particular, the book discusses the role that such men as Buffon, Rousseau, Bouganville, Loti, Gauguin, and Gobineau and institutions such as science, phrenology, scholarship, racism, travel literature, education, and tourism played in creating, supporting, authorizing, disseminating and enforcing certain images of the Polynesian. The book simultaneously details the complex and diverse responses of Maohi people to these romanticized Western discourses and reconstructs the spaces used by them to inscribe their resistance.