By Michael Sturma
ISBN-10: 0313316740
ISBN-13: 9780313316746
From the 1st eu touch with Tahiti in 1767, the parable of the South Sea maiden has continued via many incarnations. even if the maiden usually supplied an idealized antidote to Western women's self-assertion, the South Pacific additionally afforded an area the place obstacles among the sexes can be comfy and transgressed. From James prepare dinner and Captain Bligh to James Michener and Margaret Mead, the Island lady has occupied a unique position within the erotic mind's eye of the West. In a sweeping examine that embraces historical past, literature, visible arts, anthropology and picture, this learn supplies clean perception into the myths and fact of a Western icon.
While ladies from faraway lands have constantly been provided as unique and inviting, the South Sea maiden has come to represent female sexuality, as an essential component of the journey, sensuality, and romance of the South Pacific. every person from early explorers to nineteenth century writers and artists to latter day anthropologists, movie makers, and tourism promoters have extolled their virtues and their our bodies. Sturma seems to be at the back of the preferred clich^D'es to bare how the myth-making approach mirrored not just Western wants, however the lower and thrust of fixing sexual politics. the result's an interesting examine either South Sea image-makers and the ladies whom they discovered so seductive.
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