Paradise and Its Discontents: 19th and Early 20th Century European and American Representations of Polynesian and Melanesian Culture and Society
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Holding a Mirror Up to Himself: Henry Adams in the South Seas. John Orr, University of Portland
Adams's sojourn in Tahiti resulted in his book commonly known as Tahiti (1893/1901) where he traces out the fall of the Teva clan, a fall that resonated with him due to his family's fall from power.
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Common Bonds: Political Prisoners and Kanaks in Nineteenth Century New Caledonia. Leonard Koos, University of Mary Washington
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.
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The Languages of Prejudice: Doubleday, World War I, and the Pacific. Eva-Marie Kroller, University of British Columbia
The publisher F. N. Doubleday and his wife travelled in 1918-9 in the Pacific as Commissioners of the Red Cross, filing official and often prejudicial reports, as well as writing an informal diary for the entertainment of their children until Mrs. Doubleday suddenly died en route.
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“From Barbarism to Civilization and Refinement”: Protestant Missionary Women and Misrepresentations of Hawaiian Culture in the Sandwich Islands Mission, 1820-1863. Michelle Stonis, Grand Canyon University
Missionary women evoked misrepresentations of Native Hawaiians and Hawaiian culture to justify the active work they performed outside of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions’ directives during the Sandwich Islands Mission.
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