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A critical anthology of Western writing about the insular Pacific, from the Renaissance to contemporary literature.
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Critique--Studies in Contemporary Fiction 54.2 (2013). 161-80.
From Whaling to Armaments to Food’: Melville’s, Pynchon’s and Wedde’s Economies of the Pacific.2013 •
The Pacific has been treated as a region where systems of economic and cultural control generate a uniformity that mimics paradise. It also serves as a global, oceanic circulatory system for routes of commerce in whaling, armaments, and food production. Herman Melville, Thomas Pynchon, and the New Zealand writer Ian Wedde oscillate between historical narratives of Pacific islands and transcendental anti-narratives in which history is subsumed by timeless, universalized space. Somewhere between paradise—a place where, as David Byrne might say, nothing ever happens—and a colonized space in which history is repressed as eternal nature, the Pacific has most of all been defined as/by an ocean. As a site of cultural geography, the Pacific has been treated as a region where successive systems of economic and cultural control have generated a patina of uniformity that mimics paradise—a space of eternal return, a transcendental zone beyond Western history, a representation of the All of nature, and a liquid palimpsest. It also serves as a global circulatory system, whose routes of commerce—first in whaling, then armaments, and finally food production—overlap with its natural currents. As a result, the Pacific, especially in the U.S. imagination, has been situated, alternately and sometimes simultaneously, as both inside and outside, vanishing point and guarantor of, history: as amorphous and unrepresentable, yet as universally representative. Partly in response to that pattern of alternating representation, which stretches back at least to the early nineteenth century, an intimate connection between paranoia, history, and narrative emerges in several almost intertextual representations of Pacific histories and economies. Herman Melville, Thomas Pynchon, and the contemporary New Zealand writer (and former museum curator) Ian Wedde oscillate between historical narrative of specific Pacific islands and countries and an antinarrative in which history is subsumed by a timeless, universalized space projected onto the oceanic. Each writer uses a voluminous amount of obscure, hard-to-trace historical material—including journals, diaries, and, in Pynchon’s and Wedde’s cases, Melville himself as historical artifact—to construct their narratives, yet at the center of their works lies an elaborately constructed rejection of traditional history. By the 1840s, American transcendentalists had begun shifting their attention from the historically and culturally bound Atlantic to the new world, universal Pacific. (I focus here on the twentieth century but argue at length elsewhere that nineteenth-century transcendental American authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson formulated an initially idealistic, yet already darkening or even paranoid, vision of the Pacific as emblem of universal nature and natural law, purportedly transcending custom, local law, and cultural bias.)1 Melville staged, mocked, and was greatly influenced by such transcendental representations of the new world, and Ishmael—the narrator of Moby-Dick—toyed incessantly with transcendental idealism and repeatedly noted his susceptibility to pantheism, a belief in a transnational, impersonal nature or natural law as divine. What we might term a kind of transcendental Pacificism also serves as a precursor to postmodernism insofar as both are partly postcolonial discourses, where the hollowed-out forms of pre-Western beliefs are adapted to suit the political and cultural paradigms of a dominant culture that purports to transcend its own history (sometimes through a rejection of history as a discredited metanarrative). Melville anticipates much of this postmodern
In the interwar period, the Pacific Ocean was crisscrossed by hundreds of passenger liners, and island themes and settings splashed across the silver screen and the pages of glossy magazines. New technology produced new touristic engagements with the region that reproduced the age old themes of colonial adventure but in nuanced ways that were sensitive to rapidly changing cultural values as the new media of film and photography reached critical saturation. This article considers the way that magazines, as inherently intermedial forms, were hinge platforms that showcased and facilitated a number of differently mediated encounters with this rapidly modernizing frontier, the last ocean to open up to mass transportation. Changing media values and familiarity with the region in late colonial modernity, we argue, were different on each side of the ocean, as were the cultural associations and levels of familiarity with the region and Hollywood. In this article we consider the space and place of the Pacific in two different magazines published across the Pacific basin in late colonial modernity: America's Sunset(1898-) and Australia's The BP Magazine.
Kinneret II. Results of the Excavations at Tell el-ʽOrēme, 1994–2008: Vol. 1. The Bronze Age, Iron Age II, Post-Iron Age Periods, and Other Studies. Münster: Zaphon Verlag, p. 21-32 (Ägypten und Altes Testament; vol. 120).
The Excavations: Goals, Organization, Documentation, and Conservation2024 •
Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science
Isolation, Characterization, and Evaluation of Microsatellite Loci for Cultivar Identification in the Ornamental Pampas Grass Cortaderia selloana2006 •
Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism
Dietary assessment is a critical element of health research – Perspective from the Partnership for Advancing Nutritional and Dietary Assessment in Canada2016 •
2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)
A Modelling study of equatorial and low latitude ionosphere around 95° E during the deep solar minimum 2009-2010 using SAMI2 model2019 •
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Journal of Luminescence
Enhanced upconversion emission of Dy3+-doped tellurite glass by heat-treated silver nanoparticles2014 •
Die Poesie der Linie: Italienische Meisterzeichnungen, edited by Jonas Beyer and Michael Matile, exh. cat. Kunsthaus Zürich, 30–33. Zürich: Scheidegger und Spiess
JACOPO NEGRETTI, gen. PALMA VECCHIO Lukrezia, um 1526–15282020 •
Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences
Influence of Elevational Habitat Changes on Non-volant Small Mammal Species Distribution and Diversity on Mount Nuang, Hulu Langat, Selangor, Malaysia2002 •
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The Egyptian Journal of Bronchology
Lung herniation post-removal of thoracostomy tubeLa Revue de Médecine Légale
Maternal deaths: A 22-year forensic retrospective study (1987–2009)SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN THE AIR FORCE
Aspects Regarding Safety System in Surface-To-Air Missile Firings2017 •
Scientific Reports
Functional characterization of thermotolerant microbial consortium for lignocellulolytic enzymes with central role of Firmicutes in rice straw depolymerization2021 •
International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management
Investigation of lean manufacturing factors for waste reduction in manufacturing SMEs2021 •
Informatics in Medicine Unlocked
Willingness to use telemedicine during COVID-19 among health professionals in a low income country2021 •