Identitarian construction in French Polynesia: chronotopes of insularity

Identitarian construction in French Polynesia: chronotopes of insularity

Since its “discovery”, Tahiti has been shaped by the colonial imagination as an exotic Eden where you could go back to the happy and motionless time of myth. Within this very space though, lie the seeds of another temporality that will eventually precipitate the exotic dream into the flow of Histor...

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Main Author: Paola Carmagnani
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2015-06-01
Series:RiCognizioni
Subjects:
South-Pacific
French Polynesia
Post-colonial
Identity
Online Access:https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/869
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spelling doaj-b49503c7891f4e07a3c0e5ca8978e28c2021-09-14T07:20:57ZdeuUniversità degli Studi di TorinoRiCognizioni2384-89872015-06-012310.13135/2384-8987/869706Identitarian construction in French Polynesia: chronotopes of insularityPaola Carmagnani0Università degli Studi di Torino Since its “discovery”, Tahiti has been shaped by the colonial imagination as an exotic Eden where you could go back to the happy and motionless time of myth. Within this very space though, lie the seeds of another temporality that will eventually precipitate the exotic dream into the flow of History. Facing these colonial visions, Polynesians have shaped new geo-cultural representations, designed to found a national identity. These new narratives, however, seem to be trapped into a History where no decolonization process ever occurred and which keeps looking back to an original Eden forever lost.                 https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/869South-PacificFrench PolynesiaPost-colonialIdentity
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Identitarian construction in French Polynesia: chronotopes of insularity
RiCognizioni
South-Pacific
French Polynesia
Post-colonial
Identity
author_facet Paola Carmagnani
author_sort Paola Carmagnani
title Identitarian construction in French Polynesia: chronotopes of insularity
title_short Identitarian construction in French Polynesia: chronotopes of insularity
title_full Identitarian construction in French Polynesia: chronotopes of insularity
title_fullStr Identitarian construction in French Polynesia: chronotopes of insularity
title_full_unstemmed Identitarian construction in French Polynesia: chronotopes of insularity
title_sort identitarian construction in french polynesia: chronotopes of insularity
publisher Università degli Studi di Torino
series RiCognizioni
issn 2384-8987
publishDate 2015-06-01
description Since its “discovery”, Tahiti has been shaped by the colonial imagination as an exotic Eden where you could go back to the happy and motionless time of myth. Within this very space though, lie the seeds of another temporality that will eventually precipitate the exotic dream into the flow of History. Facing these colonial visions, Polynesians have shaped new geo-cultural representations, designed to found a national identity. These new narratives, however, seem to be trapped into a History where no decolonization process ever occurred and which keeps looking back to an original Eden forever lost.                
topic South-Pacific
French Polynesia
Post-colonial
Identity
url https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/869
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