Catechisms and Bells in Contemporary Polynesian Literatures: From European Echoes to Insular Melodies
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2017
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South Pacific Ocean Region South Pacific Region Islands--South Pacific Ocean South Seas South Pacific Oceanica Southwest Pacific Region South Sea Islands Isles Islets Navigators Voyagers DiscoverersCiter ce document
Chloé Angué, « Catechisms and Bells in Contemporary Polynesian Literatures: From European Echoes to Insular Melodies », Revue de littérature comparée, ID : 10670/1.e68276...
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At the end of the sixteenth century, navigators appointed by Spain to carry God’s word to the South Seas brought Polynesia to Europe’s notice. Quickly followed by missionaries who evangelized the South Pacific, the explorers discovered the different islands in the eighteenth century: their log books formed the basis of the fashionable paradise metaphors used to describe tropical islands. It is not surprising that writers born in these archipelagos consider that the Book and the way its word was spread is of primary importance. Now a significant motif in contemporary Polynesian literatures, evangelization thus reveals the importance of the Bible for an Oceanian postcolonial commitment.
