Australian Travellers in the South Seas

Halter, Nicholas

doi:10.22459/atss.2021

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“…Over time,'savage' became an ambiguous, versatile and value-laden term used interchangeably with words such as 'cannibal', 'headhunter', 'primitive', and 'native' to describe Melanesia (see Halter 2021). In their work on nineteenth century notions of savagery in colonial Australia, Anderson and Perrin (2008: 148) criticize an oversimplifcation of the colonial encounter by drawing attention to 'the discursive failure to represent or construct Australia's Indigenous peoples in the terms that had been applied to other peoples in other colonial contexts'.…”

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Australian travel writing and notions of savagery in Melanesia

Halter¹

2022

Routledge Handbook on Tourism and Small Island States in the Pacific

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Australian travel writing and notions of savagery in Melanesia

Halter¹

2022

Routledge Handbook on Tourism and Small Island States in the Pacific

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“…The South Seas now often refers to the oceans south of the equator (South Seas, n.d.), while the origin of the term is "shrouded in myth and mystery" and it retained an allure for Australians and Europeans for centuries (Halter, 2021). In the nineteenth century, it referred to the Pacific Ocean, so named by Spanish explorer Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, from a description provided by the son of a "friendly chief of Darien" who "said that the other great ocean was always smooth, and never rough like the Caribbean sea" (Markham, 1913, p. 519).…”

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Wilderness in 19th Century South Seas Literature: An Ecocritical Search for Seascapes

Dillon

2022

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In Western thought and literature, a terrestrial bias is considered a phenomenological primacy for notions such as wilderness. This ecocritical review draws on nineteenth-century South Seas literature with its influences from frontierism and the literary movements of romanticism, realism and naturism to consider a more fluid appreciation and reconceptualisation of wilderness as non-terrestrial and an oceanic touchstone for freedom. American terrestrial frontierism, that drove colonial settlement of the North American continent, is used as both counterpoint and important embarkation point for ventures into the Pacific Ocean following ‘fulfilment’ of the ‘manifest destiny’ to overspread the continent. For American, British and Australian writers, the Pacific represented an opportunity to apply literary techniques to capture new encounters. South Seas works by Melville, Stevenson, Becke and Conrad offer glimpses of seascapes that provide perceptions of heterotopias, archetypes and depictions of dispossessed itinerants at a moral frontier and wilderness that is both sublime and liberating, liminal and phenomenological.

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Australian Travellers in the South Seas

Cited by 2 publications

References 129 publications

Australian travel writing and notions of savagery in Melanesia

Australian travel writing and notions of savagery in Melanesia

Wilderness in 19th Century South Seas Literature: An Ecocritical Search for Seascapes

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