Rifled Sanctuaries: Some Views of the Pacific Islands in Western Literature to 1900 by Bill Pearson
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 2 MB
Overview: 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 through the romantic eyes of erotic novelists, this conception of Pacific Islanders persisted through the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
Download Instructions:
https://userupload.net/c9xd97iaceik
https://uploadrar.com/iqhf6keswmy4
Trouble downloading? Read This.
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 2 MB
Overview: 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 through the romantic eyes of erotic novelists, this conception of Pacific Islanders persisted through the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
Download Instructions:
https://userupload.net/c9xd97iaceik
https://uploadrar.com/iqhf6keswmy4
Trouble downloading? Read This.