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Marcel Monnier’s Portrayal of Hawaiians in Un printemps sur le Pacifique
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Arbach, Marla Josephine |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | The travelogue Un printemps sur le Pacifique relates a voyage to the Hawaiian Islands undertaken in 1884 by French globetrotter Marcel Monnier (1853–1918), who would later publish accounts of his voyages to South America, Africa, and Asia.1 The 269-page book, published by Plon in 1885, consists of sixteen chapters that cover the author’s time on O‘ahu and on Hawai‘i Island in an approximately even split, accompanied by sixteen woodcuts by Ernest Martin-Chablis and a special map of the regions visited. Narrated in the first person, like all good travelogues, the text claims to be a true account of the author’s adventures, although he also inserts some items of a different nature: two recipes, for example, and a legend (that of Kaala, the “Flower of Lanai”, which he claims to have translated faithfully from an English transcription of an oral performance). A second edition of the book, published in 1888, is identical to the first edition except for a four-page note appended to the text, dated November 1887, in which the author takes advantage of an unexpected layover in Hono- |
| Starting Page | 75 |
| Ending Page | 89 |
| Page Count | 15 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1353/hjh.2016.0003 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/59460/1/HJH50_arbach.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1353/hjh.2016.0003 |
| Volume Number | 50 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
