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ARNOLD, Wayne E.
出版情報: 北九州市立大学外国語学部紀要.  pp.17-46,  2016-10.  北九州市立大学外国語学部
URL: http://id.nii.ac.jp/1077/00000523/
概要: Missionary and colonizing efforts in the South Pacific during the first half of the nineteenth century brought radical c hanges for the natives inhabiting the islands. Along with the supposedly humane improvements from Western influences, numerous negative effects occurred that weighed heavily on the Polynesians, especially those brought on by the missionaries. Spending time in the Marquesas, Tahiti, and the Sandwich Islands, Melville witnessed events that made him question the missionaries’ activities. In Typee there is a clearly defined incongruity between the civilized world of the missionaries and the “primitive” original mode of living that the Marquesan natives retain. The contrasts Melville draws between the primitive Typee and the converted Tahitian cultures illustrate his belief that the missionaries were driving the natives toward a cultural death through the removal of pagan practices and the introduction of the “civilized” Christian beliefs governing Euro-American society. 続きを見る
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ARNOLD, Wayne E.
出版情報: 北九州市立大学外国語学部紀要.  pp.1-25,  2017-01.  北九州市立大学外国語学部
URL: http://id.nii.ac.jp/1077/00000524/
概要: Omoo is a disjointed narrative that jumps from one scene to another in an attempt to expand on various aspects of the cu rrent Tahitian culture. In Omoo, Melville uses an unnamed narrator whose adventures are not as detailed as Tommo’s are in Typee; the narrator digresses from a straightforward narrative in order to devote significant time to critiquing the supposed advancements brought about by the missionaries and colonizers. Looking at the current religious and societal position of the Tahitians, the narrator asserts that the natives are in worse condition then when they were considered “savages.” The listlessness the narrator sees in the Tahitians drives him to make his strongest argument against the work of the missionaries. Since the efforts to civilize the natives through industry have hopelessly failed, the narrator comes to the conclusion that if true Christian faith existed in them, advancements in their culture should have succeeded. 続きを見る
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ARNOLD, Wayne E.
出版情報: 北九州市立大学外国語学部紀要.  pp.31-60,  2017-03.  北九州市立大学外国語学部
URL: http://id.nii.ac.jp/1077/00000525/
概要: In both Typee and Omoo (1847), Melville’s narrators provide long, detailed descriptions concerning the missionaries’ eff orts. The narrator in each text portrays the work of the missionaries as being detrimental to the lives of the natives and Typee and Omoo work together to show the disparity in the living situations that have been created for the natives. One of the primary focuses of this article will be to contrast the Typee’s connection with nature against the manner by which the Tahitian’s have been indoctrinated into the “white civilization”, thereby removing them from the communion with nature still experienced by the Typee. This contrast of environments appears much clearer when the books are presented together; ultimately, they show how the Typee natives coexist with their environment without requiring external factors while the “civilized” natives are losing their grasp on the natural world within which they once existed. 続きを見る