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August 15, 2025HumanitiesOpen Access

“A Little God of His South Sea”: Queer Exoticism in the Decadent Pacific

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This essay explores queer sociality and decadence in Pacific imagery, highlighting implications for Indigenous narratives.

Key Points

  • Expressions of queer intimacy reflect a prelapsarian sexual innocence in the South Seas, challenging Victorian norms.
  • The essay examines how capitalist values and stereotypes about Indigenous peoples perpetuate narratives of decline and extinction.
  • Analysis is grounded in postcolonial theories, revealing the complexities of Decadence and its implications for Indigenous agency.
  • Exoticism's role in imperialist narratives raises important questions about cultural representation and the future of Indigenous identities.

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Lindsay Wilhelm (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af4cdfad7bf08b1ead64cfhttps://doi.org/10.3390/h14080171
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