Nights of Storytelling: A Cultural History of Kanaky-New Caledonia 9780824860356
Nights of Storytelling is the first book to present and contextualize the founding texts of New Caledonia, a country sui
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English Pages 408 Year 2011
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Kanak (Hi)stories
Chapter One. Origins and Orality
Chapter Two. Pathways and Interconnections1
Chapter Three. Cultural Initiation
Chapter Four. Transformations
Part II. Exploration and First Contact
Chapter Five. James Cook
Chapter Six. The Forsters
Chapter Seven. D’Entrecasteaux
Chapter Eight. La Billardière
Chapter Nine. Nineteenth-Century Perspectives
Part III. Early Texts
Chapter Ten. Colonial Representations of Kanak Culture
Chapter Eleven. Portraits of Colonial Society
Chapter Twelve. Living in the Bush
Chapter Thirteen. Women’s Lives
Chapter Fourteen. The Voice of the Other
Part IV. The Modern Period
Chapter Fifteen. From Colonial Regimes to Their Contestation (1870–1946)
Chapter Sixteen. Rewriting Colonial History
Chapter Seventeen. Kanak Rewriting of Colonial History
Chapter Eighteen. Recovering Custom
Chapter Nineteen. A Cultural Politics of Independence
Chapter Twenty. Critique of Custom
Chapter Twenty-one. Writing Together
Chapter Twenty-two. Métissage and Cultural Hybridity
References
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