Ryota Nishino The University of the South Pacific [email protected]
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Self-promotion of a maverick travel-writer:
Suzuki Tsunenori’s southern Pacific travelogue (1892)
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鈴木経勲 (1853-1938)• Advocate of Japanese
advance to the South Seas in late 19C.
• Travel-writer (amongst other pursuits). 南洋探検実記 (1892)
• Reputation deteriorated from an ethnographer to a bluffer.
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Travel-writing scholarship
• ‘Pseudos’ and multiple functions (Holland and Huggan, Youngs, Thompson).
• Self-presentation <> representing the other.
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Self-presentation as …• A reporter
– Meeting Robert Wilcox in Hawai’i• A cultural interlocutor
– Catholicism; Linguistic abilities• A grass-roots ambassador
– School visit to promote Japan’s industrial advance.
– Striking rapport with ‘natives’ and ‘coolies’ in Fiji.
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A kava ceremony,Pagopago,
Samoa
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Loreto school, near Levuka
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‘Kawasu’