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233 Introduction 1. Dudley A. Siddal, “Artists Flock to Tahiti,” Publisher’s Weekly 99 (22 January 1921): 199. Also qtd. in Charles Robert Roulston,“Eden and the Lotus Eaters: A Critical Study of the South Sea Island Writings of Frederick O’Brien, James Norman Hall, and Robert Dean Frisbie,” Ph.D. dissertation (University of Maryland, 1965). 2. Amy Kaplan, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002), 18. 3. See, for example, Donald Denoon et al., eds., The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 8; Ernest S. Dodge, Islands and Empires: Western Impact on the Pacific and East Asia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976), 114–115. “Oceania,” according to Martin W. Lewis and Karen Wigen in The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997)—the invention of which cartographically isolated Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and Australia from the Asian continent—was the invention of French geographers as part of the political mapping that went on during nineteenth -century colonization (219). 4. Epeli Hau‘ofa,“Our Sea of Islands,” in A New Oceania: Rediscovering Our Sea of Islands, ed. Eric Waddell,Vijay Naidu, and Epeli Hau‘ofa (Suva: University of the South Pacific Press, 1993), 8. 5. Jocelyn Linnekin, “Contending Approaches,” in The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, ed. Donald Denoon et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 8. 6. Alfred Gell, Wrapping in Images: Tattooing in Polynesia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), 4. 7. Herman Melville,“The South Seas” (Baltimore American and Commercial Daily Advertiser [9 February 1859]),in The Portable Melville, ed.Jay Leyda (NewYork:Viking, 1952), 576. 8. John R. Eperjesi, The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2005), 15. 9. Qtd. in Rob Wilson, Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000), 111. Notes 10. Wilson, 23–24. See also Christopher L. Connery’s “Pacific Rim Discourse: The US Global Imaginary in the Late Cold War Years,” in Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production, ed. Arif Dirlik and Rob Wilson (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995), 47–56. For a reading of “Asia/Pacific” as a space of emerging cultural formations , see David Palumbo-Liu in Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1999). See also Bruce Cumings, “Rimspeak: or, The Discourse of the ‘Pacific Rim,’” in What Is in a Rim? Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea, ed. Arif Dirlik (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993), 53–72. 11. See Malini Johar Schueller, U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature , 1790–1890 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998); Mary A. Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915–1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001). 12. Eperjesi, 4–13. 13. See “Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: An Introduction,” in Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader, ed. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 1–4. 14. Eperjesi, 5; Martin Jacques,“Strength in Numbers,” The Guardian, 23 October 2004, sec.1: 23. 15. Albert Wendt, ed., Nuanua: Pacific Writing Since 1980 (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1990), 2; Wendt,“Towards a New Oceania,” Writers in East-West Encounter : New Cultural Bearings, ed. Guy Amirthanayagam (London: Macmillan, 1982), 213. 16. Neil Rennie, Far-Fetched Facts: The Literature of Travel and the Idea of the South Seas (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), 30–82. 17. Describing the loss of the mythic in German culture, Nietzsche further notes, Man today, stripped of myth, stands famished among all his pasts and must dig frantically for roots, be it among the most remote antiquities. What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless other cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if it is not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb? We should consider whether our feverish and frightening agitation is anything but the greedy grasping for food of a hungry man. “The Birth of Tragedy” and “The Genealogy of Morals,” trans. Francis Golffing (New York: Doubleday, 1956), 137. 18. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “The Rani of Sirmur,” in Europe and Its Others, vol. 1, ed. Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen, and Diana Loxley (Colchester : University...