The South Pacific in European History and Subjectivity in the Modern Pacific Literature

这个项目试图考察“南太平洋”在欧洲想象和当代太平洋文学作品中的意义：欧洲人如何在他们的文学中产生想象中的太平洋，以及当代土著作家如何在创造自己的身份时采用或拒绝这些传统观念。为了提供另一种视角，它还参考了战前日本对该地区的文学表现。

This project attempts to examine the significance of "the South Pacific" both in European imaginations and the contemporary Pacific literary works : How Europeans have generated the imaginary Pacific in their literature and how contemporary indigenous writers employ or decline those traditional ideas in creating their own identity. In order to provide another perspective, it also refers to Japanese literary representations of the region in the prewar period.