The Pacific tale : short fiction from 1890-1950 / Mandy Treagus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Treagus, Mandy, author.

Series:

Maritime literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, English--20th century--History and criticism.

Short stories, English.

Pacific Area--In literature.

Pacific Area.

Short stories, English--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 231 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2025]

Summary:

"This book offers a genealogy of short fiction in English set in the Pacific and written by British, American, and Australian writers. Through its analysis of texts by non-Islander authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke, Jack London, W. Somerset Maugham, and James A. Michener, this book traces the rise of 'The Pacific Tale' as a popular genre. Exploring themes of masculinity and imperialism; traders, literary mapping and inter-racial relationships; plantation labour and racial taxonomies; tropical breakdown, missions and colonial illegitimacy, together with militarism, environmental destruction and the persistence of the trope of the Polynesian belle, this study highlights the role and agency of Pacific Islanders, despite the multiple fronts on which their cultures were impacted by colonial powers. It concludes with the moment when Pacific writers Albert Wendt and Epeli Hau'ofa express that agency in their own fictions, moving beyond the tradition of the Pacific tale." -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

3031926579

9783031926570

OCLC:

1516164070

Publisher Number:

CIPO000239543