Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific - Couverture souple

Hanlon, David; White, Geoffrey M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0742500454 ISBN 13 : 9780742500457

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2000

Synopsis

Long known for its vast geographic and cultural diversity, the Pacific Islands region today is witness to some of the most dramatic histories of decolonization and postcolonial development anywhere in the world. As new nations emerge_and struggle to emerge_political change is everywhere marked by efforts to reconceptualize identities, histories, and futures. In the midst of these transformations, this volume brings together a diverse range of analysis and commentary that challenge tired and simplistic paradigms of Oarea studyO and urge us to rethink the ways we imagine and represent the Pacific. The essays also challenge the conventions of scholarship itself, offering provocative reflections on the politics and ethics of research and writing across disciplines. The authors examine a range of subjects relevant to formations of cultural and regional identity, including the politics and poetics of history, of tradition, and of cultural expressions in literature, film, and the arts. In doing so, their discussions open up new ways of thinking about the Pacific as well as about relations between tradition and modernity, and about processes of Omodernization O and globalization everywhere.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Hanlon is professor of history at the University of HawaiOi at M%noa. Geoffrey M. White is senior fellow at the East-West Center and professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i, where he also serves as editor of The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0742500454
• ISBN 13: 9780742500457
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 456
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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