Facing the Pacific : : Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination / / Jeffrey A. Geiger.
The enduring popularity of Polynesia in western literature, art, and film attests to the pleasures that Pacific islands have, over the centuries, afforded the consuming gaze of the west-connoting solitude, release from cares, and, more recently, self-renewal away from urbanized modern life. Facing t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Garden and the Wilderness: Tropes of Order and Disorder
- 2. Idylls and Ruins: Frederick O'Brien in the Marquesas
- 3. Searching for Moana: Frances Hubbard and Robert J. Flaherty in Samoa
- 4. The Front and Back of Paradise: W. S. Van Dyke and MGM in Tahiti
- 5. The Homoerotic Exotic: From C. W. Stoddard to Tabu
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author