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Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin, and: Storied Landscapes: Hawaiian Literature and Place (review)

Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin, and: Storied Landscapes:... book re v iews 597 graph on contemporary Pacific media United States. In lesser hermeneutic that treats the region as one large hands, this book could easily have mediated space. While the gaps in the the feel and reach of a “round up the study are apparent, they also point usual suspects” text, but it is much toward numerous follow-up studies, more important than that. Edmond including those that pay ethnographic pushes the white mythology of Euro- attention to social practices around american representation to some end media production and reception. point of complexity and subtle self- Seward provides productive schemas, undermining. At many points (espe- such as his insistence on the impor- cially in the introduction and epi- tance of sound to Pacific communities. logue), he acknowledges the limits of I can see other researchers picking up working inside this very “colonial dis- where Seward leaves off: to studies course” frame as inadequate to repre- that address the intertextuality of sent or approach Native Pacific voices radio news broadcasting and oral and views of Oceania. storytelling; the diverse social spaces For Edmond, however, there is no w h e re radio is consumed in urban and place to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin, and: Storied Landscapes: Hawaiian Literature and Place (review)

The Contemporary Pacific , Volume 13 (2) – Jul 1, 2001

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University of Hawai'I Press
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Copyright © 2001 University of Hawai'i Press.
ISSN
1527-9464

Abstract

book re v iews 597 graph on contemporary Pacific media United States. In lesser hermeneutic that treats the region as one large hands, this book could easily have mediated space. While the gaps in the the feel and reach of a “round up the study are apparent, they also point usual suspects” text, but it is much toward numerous follow-up studies, more important than that. Edmond including those that pay ethnographic pushes the white mythology of Euro- attention to social practices around american representation to some end media production and reception. point of complexity and subtle self- Seward provides productive schemas, undermining. At many points (espe- such as his insistence on the impor- cially in the introduction and epi- tance of sound to Pacific communities. logue), he acknowledges the limits of I can see other researchers picking up working inside this very “colonial dis- where Seward leaves off: to studies course” frame as inadequate to repre- that address the intertextuality of sent or approach Native Pacific voices radio news broadcasting and oral and views of Oceania. storytelling; the diverse social spaces For Edmond, however, there is no w h e re radio is consumed in urban and place to

Journal

The Contemporary PacificUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: Jul 1, 2001

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