This paper states a progressive change of Tahitian Utopia in French Culture from the late Eighteenth Century to early Twentieth Century. If Bougainville bases Edenic Dream Image of an island as a "perfect model of the state of nature", the subsequent philosophical works (Diderot) or literary (Melville, Loti, Stevenson, Gauguin, Segalen) or scientific show a contradiction between archaic nostalgia and tension towards the future. Paradoxically, only recently anthropology seems in the position to make a synthesis of these contradictions by studying the "métissage" as residual traces of a knowledge of the origins.

Sognare Tahiti. A proposito di paradisi ritrovati e perduti.

ZECCHI, Lina
2005-01-01

Abstract

This paper states a progressive change of Tahitian Utopia in French Culture from the late Eighteenth Century to early Twentieth Century. If Bougainville bases Edenic Dream Image of an island as a "perfect model of the state of nature", the subsequent philosophical works (Diderot) or literary (Melville, Loti, Stevenson, Gauguin, Segalen) or scientific show a contradiction between archaic nostalgia and tension towards the future. Paradoxically, only recently anthropology seems in the position to make a synthesis of these contradictions by studying the "métissage" as residual traces of a knowledge of the origins.
2005
Altérité et insularité. Relations croisées dans les cultures francophones (atti pubblicati a cura di Alerssandra Ferraro)
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