Specters of violence in a colonial context : New Caledonia, 1917 / Adrian Muckle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muckle, Adrian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Kanak (New Caledonian people)--Politics and government.

Kanak (New Caledonian people).

History.

New Caledonia--History--20th century.

New Caledonia.

Violence--New Caledonia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2012]

Summary:

Nights of Storytelling is the first book to present and contextualize the founding texts of New Caledonia, a country sui generis in the relatively little-known French Pacific. Extracts from literary, ethnographic, and historical works in English translation introduce the many voices of a diverse culture as it moves toward "independence" or the "common destiny" framed by the 1998 Noumea Agreements. These texts reflect the coexistence of two major cultures, indigenous and European, shaped by the energies and shadows of empire and significantly influenced by one another. Book jacket.

Contents:

Settler specters of Kanak revolt

Specters of colonial violence

The war

Of allies and enemies

Containing and mobilizing colonial violence

End and aftermath : reshaping power relations

The administrative and judicial framing of 1917

The "last of the Kanak revolts?"

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index.

ISBN:

9780824835095

0824835093

OCLC:

754389770