Mosquito Coast Research Articles

<sc>robert a. naylor</sc>. <italic>Penny Ante Imperialism: The Mosquito Shore and the Bay of Honduras, 1600–1914; A Case Study in British Informal Empire</italic>. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press or Associated University Presses, Cranbury, N.J. 1989. Pp. 315. $42.50

Journal Article robert a. naylor. Penny Ante Imperialism: The Mosquito Shore and the Bay of Honduras, 1600–1914; A Case Study in British Informal Empire. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press or Associated University Presses, Cranbury, N.J. 1989. Pp. 315. $42.50 Get access Naylor Robert A.. Penny Ante Imperialism: The Mosquito Shore and the Bay of Honduras, 1600–1914; A Case Study in British Informal Empire. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press or Associated University Presses, Cranbury, N.J. 1989. Pp. 315. $42.50. William A. Green William A. Green Holy Cross College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 95, Issue 4, October 1990, Pages 1326–1327, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/95.4.1326-a Published: 01 October 1990

Penny Ante Imperialism: The Mosquito Shore and the Bay of Honduras, 1600-1914, by Robert A. Naylor

"Penny Ante Imperialism: The Mosquito Shore and the Bay of Honduras, 1600-1914, by Robert A. Naylor." Canadian Journal of History, 25(1), pp. 145–146

Penny ante imperialism: the Mosquito Shore and the Bay of Honduras, 1600-1914: a case study in British informal empire

Penny ante imperialism: the Mosquito Shore and the Bay of Honduras, 1600-1914: a case study in British informal empire

The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast

Self's Dark Circle: The Home-Founding Journey in Paul Theroux'sThe Mosquito Coastand Stephen Minot'sGhost Images

(1989). Self's Dark Circle: The Home-Founding Journey in Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast and Stephen Minot's Ghost Images. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 227-238.

Male Bonding, Hollywood Orientalism, and the Repression of the Feminine in Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket

SUSAN WHITE Male Bonding, Hollywood Orientalism, and the Repression of the Feminine in Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket Nature was miraculously skilful in concocting excuses, he thought, with a heavy, theatrical contempt. It could deck a hideous creature in enticing apparel. When he saw how she, as a woman beckons, had cozened him out of his home and hoodwinked him into holding a rifle, he went into a rage. He turned in tupenny fury upon the high, tranquil sky. He would have like to have splashed it with a derisive paint. And he was bitter that among all men, he should be the only one sufficiently wise to understand these things. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (Staííman edition, ch. 10) Full metal jacket was marketed as a traditional war film, basking in the reflected glow ofKubrick's ambiguous reputation as an eccentric genius. Like most war movies, this film is, at least superficially, unconcerned with the representation of women. However, in the Warner Brothers press kit,1 the reviewer David Denby articulates a return of the issue of femininity repressed from the film's manifest content: The first law of moviegoing happiness in the eighties is this: Anticipate nothing. Because if you dream about an important upcoming movie, if you expect it to save your life or even the movie season, the picture will turn out to be Dune or The Arizona Quarterly Volume 44 Number 3, Autumn 1988 Copyright © 1988 by Arizona Board of Regents issN 004-1610 Full Metal Jacket1 2 1 Mosquito Coast or The Mission. Burned, you'll feel like the high school nerd who gets his hands on the class cheerleader only to discover she's wearing falsies. Which serves you right for caring so much about boobs, you boob.2 There is here a curious coincidence between Denby's critical approach and the male fantasies both made available by and powerfully critiqued by this film text—as I hope to begin to make clear in what follows. And yet this passage from Denby's review also, despite itself, echoes a deep suspicion towards the film medium that is one of the most profound meditations carried out by this film: You cannot any longer use film as a simple facilitator of fantasy, especially fantasies about women. If you do, you'll get burned. A detail from Fui! Metaí Jacket: a Vietnamese whore is taken for sex into a gutted movie theater that is advertising a Vietnamese feature as well as a rerun of The Lone Ranger. Like 2001 and Barry Lyndon, Kubrick's Fuíí Metal Jacket divides into two distinct parts, punctuated (in the latter film) by a fade to black and a drastic change of location: from the Parris Island bootcamp which is the setting of the first half of the film, to Da Nang and then Hue City during the 1968 Tet offensive. Both parts feature a time-worn combat film formula—the adaptation of the individual to the demands of a ritualistic male group.' In both cases that adaptation fails spectacularly, though for radically different reasons. In the first instance this failure stems from what is termed, pace 200i's Hal computer, a "major malfunction " in the brain of Private Leonard Lawrence (Vincent D'Onofrio), otherwise known as Private PyIe (as in "Gomer PyIe, U.S. Marine Corps"), who becomes a suicidal maniac at the end of his humiliating bootcamp experience. The second failure of adaptation concerns the film's protagonist, ironically named Private Joker (Matthew Modine) by the foul-mouthed Sergeant Hartman (Lee Ermey) because of his imitation of John Wayne. This reference to John Wayne is hardly a casual one in a movie set during the days when The Green Berets was a gung-ho promotion for the U.S. Marine Corps.4 Clearly, Joker is easily influenced by the movies, despite his semblance of being a free-thinker. At the end of the film Joker is marching into the reddened Vietnamese night, speaking in voiceover of his "homecoming fuck fantasies" and joining in as the troops sing the "Mickey Mouse" theme song after a full day in the urban trenches. Joker is lost in the masses...

Fictional Discourse and Historical Space: Defoe and Theroux, Austen and Forster, Conrad and Greene , and: Knowledge and Experimental Realism in Conrad, Lawrence, and Woolf , and: Conrad's Mythology (review)

Reviewed by: Fictional Discourse and Historical Space: Defoe and Theroux, Austen and Forster, Conrad and Greene, and: Knowledge and Experimental Realism in Conrad, Lawrence, and Woolf, and: Conrad's Mythology James Gindin Andrew Wright . Fictional Discourse and Historical Space: Defoe and Theroux, Austen and Forster, Conrad and Greene. New York: St. Martin's, 1987. 116 pp. $27.50. Patrick J. Whiteley . Knowledge and Experimental Realism in Conrad, Lawrence, and Woolf. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1987. 235 pp. $25.00. Robert Wilson . Conrad's Mythology. Troy: Whitston, 1987. 158 pp. $22.50. Two of these books are thoughtful, complicated works of literary criticism, intelligent approaches to both fiction and current academic discourse. Andrew Wright, in Fictional Discourse and Historical Space, examines possible boundaries between the reading of fiction and the study of literary history, as well as the various audiences for fiction, the varieties of relation between fiction and the reader's fictions of self. In trying to isolate coherent voices in diverse fiction through changing times and audiences, Wright concentrates on three pairs of novels: Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast; Austen's Emma and Forster's Howards End; Conrad's The Secret Agent and Greene's The Human Factor. More rigorous philosophically, although less imaginative about the complexities of readers and times, Patrick Whiteley traces theories of epistemology back to Cartesian dualism in order to locate a change in the applications of knowledge to the constant novelistic question of the identity of the self that indicates modernism in the fiction of Conrad, Lawrence, and Woolf. Although neither critical work is completely convincing, both suggest thoughtful historical speculation and provide sensitive and illuminating readings of particular works. Andrew Wright is acute in using historical knowledge and insight to formulate authors' individual perspectives, as in his account of how Defoe deliberately reduced the complexities of experience to a regressive dream of appealing childishness. The dream is both contrasted to the less naive, more social vision in Swift's Gulliver's Travels and made parallel to a similarly regressive but historically different dream in Theroux. Wright is excellent on the complexities and frustrations of the class-and gender-bound voice in Austen, which can be connected to various class and culture voices in Howards End, alike in their deliberate "refusal to be great," their "irritating" or fascinating lack of pretense. He also makes shrewd connections between the ways in which metaphor suggests only partially knowable political and religious points of view in both Conrad and Greene, although the novelists' politics and metaphysics differ. Always sensitive to the fact that readers relate to characters in fiction partially or randomly, seldom requiring conclusive identification, Wright uses history to [End Page 270] underline the differences between examples of roughly similar emotions and perceptions. His recognition of incomplete identification leaves his readers free to respond or not to the differences his pairs illustrate, depending on their own perceptions of literary history. In this way, I find myself stretched and convinced by his account of the differences between Conrad's and Greene's treatments of anarchism and the implications for social and political control; Greene's use of Trollope to suggest both a kind of historical alienation and a lost order is explained particularly well. I have also learned from Wright's discussion of the adaptations and rejection of Crusoe myths in Theroux's fiction. Although I admire the subtlety of his treatment of similar voices in Austen and Forster, his account of the differences is too simplistic. Unlike Austen, Forster may never have dedicated a novel to a member of the Royal Family, but his historical development of what the Schlegels represent is not unconnected to the conscious and politically futile attempt by Victoria, Albert, and especially their eldest daughter to liberalize and civilize the ruling Prussian aristocracy. Forster's connections to and ambivalences about a social establishment may have been more buried and complicated than those of Austen (as the establishments themselves were more complicated and threatened by events in the century between), but the two authors share a multiplicity of voices and questions about the stances of self that can never ignore or transpose into "utter unthinkability" an...

After the Indian Slave Trade: Cross-Cultural Trade in the Western Caribbean Rimland, 1816-1820

Recent research has shown that in the first half of the eighteenth century the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras used the taking of Indian slaves as a means of geopolitical expansion and of acquiring guns from the English in cross-cultural trade. Following a switch by Jamaican planters in the mid-eighteenth century from the use of Indian slaves to black slaves and the evacuation of the English from the Mosquito coast in 1787, the Miskito and other natives of the western Caribbean Rimland adapted to the early nineteenth-century "bust economy" by expanding their systems of tribute and/or internal trade to serve as the basis for acquiring goods for cross-cultural trade.

Were the Miskito indians black? Ethnicity, politics and plagiarism in the mid-nineteenth century

The anthropological research of Ephraim George Squier, a nineteenth century scholar, diplomat, journalist, and entrepreneur, has come under scrutiny in several articles in recent years (Barnhart 1983, Mould de Pease 1986, Olien 1985). Squier became famous, in the 1840s, for his publications on North American archaeology. During the 1850s, he published extensively on Central America, as a result of having been appointed U.S. charge d'affaires to Central America from 1849 to 1850. Later he published a book and a number of articles on Peru, based on his experiences while serving as U.S. Commissioner to Peru in 1863-4. This article will focus on Squier's work in the 1850s, when his publications were concerned with Central America. In Squier's writings on Central America, political motives often dominated over scholarly research and virtually all of his publications include political propaganda. In particular, data that applied to the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras, and their kings, were distorted (Olien 1985: 117125). One type of distortion, or misrepresentation, involved his consistent portrayal of the Miskito Indians as blacks. One of the Squier's Central American writings was the novel Waikna; or, adventures on the Mosquito Shore , that he published in 1855 under the pseudonym Samuel A. Bard. Although Waikna was published under a fictitious name, it was known at least as early as 1856 that Squier was the author (Olien 1985: 117). After 130 years, this novel remains an enigmatic work for Central American scholars. On the one hand, it is obvious that parts of it were written to discredit the Miskito Indians (Stansifer 1959: 149); on the other hand, sections of the novel appear to be legitimate and valuable descriptions of the Mosquito coast and its peoples.1 This article will attempt to identify the ethnographic sources that Squier

Micro/Macro-Level Linkages: Regional Political Structures on the Mosquito Coast, 1845-1864

The reign of Miskito king George Augustus Frederic in mid-nineteenth century was a period of British intervention in and then withdrawal from Mos- quito Coast. A series of short-term, regional political structures during that period provide insights into linkages between coastal micro-level politics and British indirect rule at macro level. For several years anthropologists have broadened scope of their analyses from micro level-the local community-to macro-level phenomena as well, whose origins are in world system. However, as DeWalt and Pelto (I985: i) have noted, the social sciences have not been able to adequately ex- plain how relatively small-scale events and processes (microlevel phenomena) are related to larger scale events and processes (macrolevel). That is, we have few theoretical and methodological guidelines for articulating linkages

Review: Nicaragua's Mosquito Shore: The Years of British and American Presence, by Craig L. Dozier

Review: <i>Nicaragua's Mosquito Shore: The Years of British and American Presence</i>, by Craig L. Dozier

Nicaragua's Mosquito Shore: The Years of British and American Presence.

Nicaragua's Mosquito Shore provides a general history of eastern Nicaragua from the time of the first British entry in 1633 to the present. The territory is populated chiefly by Mosquito Indians, who speak their own language and some Mosquito. Dozier develops the history of the current political troubles in Nicaragua, which had their origin in the early 1930s and which center about the control of the rich area inhabited by the Mosquitos. His book presents the historical background for the tragic events that are now taking place in that region.

Nicaragua’s Mosquito Shore: The Years of British and American Presence

Nicaragua’s Mosquito Shore: The Years of British and American Presence

Nicaragua's Mosquito Shore: The Years of British and American Presence

Nicaragua's Mosquito Shore: The Years of British and American Presence

Nicaragua's Mosquito Shore: The Years of British and American Presence

Journal Article Nicaragua's Mosquito Shore: The Years of British and American Presence. By Craig L. Dozier. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1985. x + 269 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.75.) Get access Thomas L. Karnes Thomas L. Karnes Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 2, September 1985, Pages 387–388, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903390 Published: 01 September 1985

Technology and the Third World: Paul Theroux'sthe Mosquito Coast

(1985). Technology and the Third World: Paul Theroux's the Mosquito Coast. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 217-227.

The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux

The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux

The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux

The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux

William Pitt’s Settlement at Black River on the Mosquito Shore: A Challenge to Spain in Central America, 1732-87

URING the eighteenth century when William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, dominated English political life, a distant relative, also named William Pitt, established an unofficial English colony on the Mosquito Shore of what is now the Caribbean coastline of Honduras. It is unlikely that the two Pitts ever met. Nevertheless, had they done so, they would have discovered a common bond in their desire to undermine Spanish political and economic pretensions in America. Although the Mosquito Shore never attained official colonial status, by 1787 it contained approximately 2,600 British subjects scattered among a dozen small settlements on a 550-mile strip running east along the Honduran coast to Cape Gracias a Dios, and then south and east to Nicaragua's San Juan River. Together with Belize and Jamaica, the Shore formed an important triangular British power base, threatening the weakest link in Spain's New World empire. 1 The small town of Black River, founded by William Pitt in 1732 near Cape Cameron some 80 miles east of the Spanish frontier town of Trujillo, became the Shore's administrative center and a major, frustrating irritant to Spanish colonial administrators when, after 1740, Jamaican governors encouraged Pitt to develop his settlement into an entrep6t for contraband trade and a staging area for attacks on Spain's Central American possessions.

William Pitt's Settlement at Black River on the Mosquito Shore: A Challenge to Spain in Central America, 1732-87

William Pitt's Settlement at Black River on the Mosquito Shore: A Challenge to Spain in Central America, 1732-87