Bill Pearson

Rifled Sanctuaries

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The Pacific Islands began to appear in Western literature soon after European navigators made landfall there. From the first, there was seldom a statement of plain facts. Explorers brought their own viewpoints while editors, poets and novelists went on to interpret and moralise the first accounts. Portraying Pacific peoples as sensual, indolent, childlike and - frequently - wicked, such stories implied the duty of Europeans to rule and of the natives to be grateful. Modified though it sometimes was by the more accepting attitudes of beachcombers, by the exploitative activities of traders, and throgh the romantic eyes of erotic novelists, this… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-77558-143-7
EAN: 9781775581437
Produktnummer: 35598988
Verlag: Auckland University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 0 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Bill Pearson (1922-2002) was a fiction writer, essayist and critic. He was the author of the influential essay 'Fretful Sleepers' from 1952 and the novel Coal Flat. Pearson is the subject of Paul Millar's biography No Fretful Sleeper.