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Common Bonds: Political Prisoners and Kanaks in Nineteenth Century New Caledonia

Panel: 
Paradise and Its Discontents: 19th and Early 20th Century European and American Representations of Polynesian and Melanesian Culture and Society
Abstract: 

This paper proposes to examine the suggestive conjunction in the narratives of deported Communards of radical leftist political thought and the representation of New Caledonia’s colonial subjects, the Kanaks.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Leonard
Last Name: 
Koos
Institution: 
University of Mary Washington