Going troppo: Images of white savagery, degeneration and race in turn‐of‐the‐century colonial fictions of the pacific

A major concern of studies of colonial cultures has been the in which the colonized other has been represented by colonizers. There has been a recognition that colonial - those ethnocentric and racial tales of ascent and through a hierarchy of civilizations - have represented subjects in particular ways, justifying the of domination and exploitation that typify colonization. , however, attention is being paid to the in which the colonizers themselves are imagined, in ways, with particular effects (see Cooper and 1989, 1997; Staler 1989a,b; and Thomas 1994).