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From Full Dusk to Full Tusk: Reimagining the "Dusky Maiden" through the Visual Arts

Tamaira, Marata A (University of Hawai‘i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2010)

For centuries the image of the Dusky Maiden has occupied a prominent place in the Western imagination. Indeed, nowhere has it been so effectively shaped and deployed than through the visual arts. Portrayed as naive ...