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Self-promotion of a maverick travel-writer: Suzuki Tsunenori’s southern Pacific travelogue (1892). Ryota Nishino The University of the South Pacific nishino_r@usp.ac.fj. 鈴木経勲 (1853-1938). Advocate of Japanese advance to the South Seas in late 19C.
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Self-promotion of a maverick travel-writer: Suzuki Tsunenori’s southern Pacific travelogue (1892) Ryota Nishino The University of the South Pacific nishino_r@usp.ac.fj
鈴木経勲 (1853-1938) • Advocate of Japanese advance to the South Seas in late 19C. • Travel-writer (amongst other pursuits). 南洋探検実記 (1892) • Reputation deteriorated from an ethnographer to a bluffer.
Travel-writing scholarship • ‘Pseudos’ and multiple functions (Holland and Huggan, Youngs, Thompson). • Self-presentation <> representing the other.
Self-presentation as … • A reporter • Meeting Robert Wilcox in Hawai’i • A cultural interlocutor • Catholicism; Linguistic abilities • A grass-roots ambassador • School visit to promote Japan’s industrial advance. • Striking rapport with ‘natives’ and ‘coolies’ in Fiji.
