Naturalization of the South Pacific in British and American Literature

本研究的目的是从归化的角度分析19世纪英美文学中南太平洋地区的思想转型。山本着重分析了维多利亚中后期冒险小说中波利尼西亚女性的形象配置，以及她们与历史和理想背景的对应和背离。库克船长和布干维尔的记录提供的知识刺激欧洲人创造了一个可以满足男性性欲的想象之地，这种想象后来被英美文学作品继承、改变和修改。与赫尔曼·梅尔维尔和R·M·巴兰廷相比，罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森在19世纪90年代的南海小说中似乎对跨种族事件的描述进行了更细致的操纵。村上的研究是对美国南太平洋文学的生态批评解读：在梅尔维尔和杰克·伦敦的小说中，原住民和风景是如何同时被疏远和熟悉的。特别是，两个类型的S的不同不仅表明了作者对太平洋的承诺，也代表了他们对自然的态度。这个项目促成了2006年Iwanami Shoten出版的Epeli Hau‘ofa的《Nederends中的吻》。尽管书名幽默，但它批判性地处理了西方殖民主义和这些岛屿的现状，更重要的是，它试图颠覆欧洲关于南太平洋的思想。

The purpose of this project is to analyze the ideological transformation of the south pacific in the 19th-century British and American literature in terms of "Naturalization".Yamamoto focused on figurative configurations of the Polynesian female in adventure novels during the mid-and late-Victorian era and on their correspondences with and deviations from the historical and ideal background. The knowledge provided by Captain Cook's and Bougainville's records stimulated Europeans to create an imaginary place where male sexual desire could be fulfilled, and the imagination was inherited, altered, and modified by British and American literary works thereafter. Compared with Herman Melville and R. M. Ballantyne, Robert Louis Stevenson appears to perform more elaborate manipulations in the description of transracial affairs, when we read his South Sea novels in 1890's.Murakami's research was on eco-critical interpretations of American south pacific literature: how native people and landscapes are simultaneously alienated and familiarized in the novels of Melville and Jack London. Especially, the difference in two "Typee"s not only suggests the authors' commitments to the pacific but also represents their attitudes towards nature.This project contributed to the publication of Epeli Hau'ofa's Kisses in the Nederends by Iwanami Shoten in 2006. In spite of its humorous title, it critically deals with Western colonialism and current situations in the islands, and, more importantly, attempts to subvert European ideas about the south pacific.