『タイピー』の中のツーリズム : ピクチャレスク・自然史・植民地主義

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• This paper examines the way Typee represents the Western colonialism of the 18th and 19th centuries. Critics have recently pointed out the colonialist viewpoint of Tommo, the narrator, by analyzing his stereotypical and ethnographical description of the Typee tribe. I focus on Tommo's tourist discourse and analyze how it bespeaks his colonialist view of the Typee tribe. The first chapter discusses the reasons that Tommo can be seen as a tourist. I use John Urry's theory of tourism to argue that Tommo is a tourist because of his sense of being free from labor, of his romantic preconception of the South Sea islands and of his aesthetic visualization of the Typee landscape. I maintain that Tommo epitomizes a " picturesque tourist" of the American leisure class among the Typee tribe. The second chapter analyzes how Tommo's tourist description of the Typee sights suggests his colonialist outlook. I show how Tommo's idealization of the tribe as beautiful "statues" of the "noble savage" rationalizes Western colonialism and how his contempt for their religion reinforces his colonialist discourse. In addition, I contend that Tommo's touristic " natural history" of the Typee village reveals his Euro-centric colonialist view of races, "environmentalism" and history.

• 2002-03-01

著者

• 米山 正文

  宇都宮大学国際学部

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