期刊名称：Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
印刷版ISSN：1447-8986
电子版ISSN：1833-6027
出版年度：2006
卷号：5
页码：100-120
出版社：Association for the Study of Australian Literature
摘要：I begin with an image of the paradisiacal abundance of the Pacific: a
still frame from Moana or The Love-Life of a South Sea Siren, directed by
Robert Flaherty of Nanook of the North fame and filmed in Samoa. It
has become a commonplace that the European imagination was drawn
to the South Seas through versions of this conventional image, one that
promised a Golden Age in which accommodating ¡°natives¡± in a state of
nature amid and identified with an amenable Nature await the arrival of
European settlers (Pearson 19-20). Its promise is seen to lie in its sublime
profusion.1
