Bad colonists : the South Seas letters of Vernon Lee Walker & Louis Becke

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Bad colonists : the South Seas letters of Vernon Lee Walker & Louis Becke

Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves

Duke University Press, 1999

  • : cloth
  • : paper

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South Seas letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke

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Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke, almost all of which were written to their respective mothers, with commentary

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-159) and index

収録内容

  • Introduction : letter-writing and colonial selfhood
  • An awfully bad hand at letter writing : Vernon Lee Walker and colonial history
  • The letters of Vernon Lee Walker, 1878-1887
  • Self-fashioning and savagery : Louis Becke's Pacific letters
  • The letters of Louis Becke, 1880-1882
  • The apotheosis of savagery : Louis Becke's Pacific tales
  • Epilogue : figures in history

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内容説明

In Bad Colonists Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves provide a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting separate sets of letters by two late-nineteenth-century British colonists of the South Pacific: Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke. Thomas and Eves frame the letters-addressed mostly to the colonists' mothers-with commentary that explores colonial degeneration in the South Pacific. Using critical anthropology and theories of history-making to view the letter as artifact and autobiography, they examine the process whereby men and women unraveled in the hot, violent, uncivil colonial milieu. An obscure colonial trader, Walker wrote to his mother in England from Australia, the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), and New Caledonia-and also from ships in between those places-during the 1870s and 1880s. Becke was a trader, too, but he was also a successful author of popular fiction that drew on his experiences in the Pacific. Written from Micronesia in the early 1880s, Becke's letters are like Walker's in that they report one setback after another. Both collections vividly evoke the day-to-day experiences of ordinary late-nineteenth-century colonists and open up new questions concerning the making and writing of selves on the colonial periphery. Exposing insecurities in an epoch normally regarded as one of imperial triumph, Bad Colonists will appeal to students and scholars of anthropology, colonial history, cultural studies, and Pacific history and culture.

目次

List of Illustrations xix Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction: Letter Writing and Colonial Selfhood 1 1. " An Awfully bad Hand at Letter Writing": Vernon Lee Walker and Colonial History 9 2. The Letters of Vernon Lee Walker, 1878-1887 19 3. Self-Fashioning and Savagery: Louis Becke's Pacific Letters 77 4. The Letters of Louis Becke, 188-1882 91 5. The Apotheosis of Savagery: Louis Becke's Pacific Tales 129 Epilogue: Figures in History 146 Notes 149 Bibliography 155 Index 161

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