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Lee Wallace: Sexual Encounters

Lee Wallace: Sexual Encounters

USA 2003, 175 pp., brochure, € 20.99
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European literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has long viewed the Pacific as the site of heterosexual pleasures. The viewed wisdom of these accounts is based on the idea of female bodies unrestrained by civilisation. In a revisionist history of the Pacific zone and some of its preeminent Western imaginists, the author suggests that the fantasy of the male body, rather than that of the free-loving female, provides the underlying libidinal structure for many of the classic »encounter« narratives from Cook to Melville. The subject of the book is sexual fantasy, particularly male homoerotic fantasy found in the literature and art of South Sea exploration, colonization, and settlement. Wallace engages in subversive readings of 18th- and 19th-century Pacific voyage journals (Cook in Hawaii and a Russian expedition to the Marquesas), reassesses Gauguin's treatment of female figures, and discusses homosexuality and Samoan male-to-female transgenderism. These phenomena, Wallace asserts, demonstrates the continuity and dissonance between Western and Pacific sexual categories.
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