Yuki Kihara’s culture for sale and the history of Pacific cultural performance

Mandy Treagu

The woman artist and narrative ends in late-Victorian writing

Mandy Treagu

Empire girls: the colonial heroine comes of age

Mandy Teagu

The South Seas exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair, 1893

Mandy Treagu

Not bent at all: Bend It Like Beckham, girls' sport and the spectre of the lesbian

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Spectacles of empire: Maori tours of England in 1863 and 1911

http://www.australian.unimelb.edu.au/research/publications/britishworld.htm

Non a la bombe

by Mandy Dyso

Crossing 'The Beach': Samoa, Stevenson and 'The Beach at Falesa'

Article first published online: 1 MAY 2014Across the islands of the Pacific during the 19th century, a resignification of the term ‘the beach’ occurred, as it took on a different and very specific meaning. It came to indicate a particular space of contact, where cultures and races mixed, and where trade, missionising and colonising occurred and new subjectivities developed. The figure of the ‘afakasi (mixed race Samoan) exemplifies many of the contradictions and possibilities of the beach, as ‘afakasi were both marginalised and yet often spectacularly successful in this environment. Stevenson lived in the vicinity of one of the more notable new Pacific beaches, Apia, and he and his extended family took a particular interest in the ‘afakasi members of their beach society. This interest provides a specific context for Stevenson's Pacific fiction, especially ‘The Beach at Falesá’, in which he acknowledges the potential emptiness of the late-colonial project, yet never quite abandons its iteration of white colonial masculinity.Mandy Treagu