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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection explores the confluence of American and British (neo)imperalism in the Pacific, as represented in various forms of Pacific discourse including literature, ethnography, film, painting, autobiography, journalism, and environmental discourse. It investigates the alliances and rivalries between these two colonial powers during the crucial transition period of the early-to-mid twentieth century, also exploring indigenous Pacific responses to Anglo-American imperialism during and beyond the decolonization period of the late twentieth century. While the relationship between Britain and the US has been analyzed through prominent forms of economic and cultural exchange between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, there is to date no sustained study of the relationship between British and US colonial expansion into the Pacific, which became central to ideas of developing âEuropeanâ modernity in the late eighteenth century and has played a pivotal in the history
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Foreword: Making and Unmaking the Anglo-American Pacific
ROB WILSON
Introduction
MICHELLE KEOWN, ANDREW TAYLOR AND MANDY TREAGUS
PART I
Military, Religious and Cultural Imperialism in Pacific Literature
1 War and Redemption: Militarism, Religion and Anticolonialism in Pacific Literature
MICHELLE KEOWN
2 Reading Imperialism in the Pacific: The Prose of Joseph Veramu and the Poetry of Sia Figiel
TERESIA TEAIWA
3 Slow Walking, Fast Talking: PI Poetry and Imperialisms
SELINA TUSITALA MARSH
PART II
Transatlantic Trajectories in Pacific film, photography and the visual arts
4 It’s Raining in Pago: The Body, Religion and Race in W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘Rain’ and its Film Adaptations
MANDY TREAGUS
5 The Voyager’s Sublime: Kodachrome and Pacific Tourism
JEFFREY GEIGER
6 Culture and Imperialism: John Pule’s Painting, 1990-2010
NICHOLAS THOMAS
PART III
Cross-cultural Alliances and Tensions in Pacific Discourse
7 Lunchtime at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Notes on Working Friendships among Natives and Non-Natives and Imperial Anglo-Americanism in Territorial Hawai‘i (1900-1959)
PAUL LYONS
8 Cowboys and Coconuts: Robert Dean Frisbie in the Colonial Pacific
PAUL SHARRAD
9 Annexation and the Environment: Writing, Reading, Reanimating ‘Āina
SUSAN NAJITA
Afterword: In Memoriam Teresia Teaiwa (1968-2017)
MICHELLE KEOWN AND MANDY TREAGUS
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
