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Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters

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This book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific that depict Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print and how they were appropriated and interrogated by Pacific peoples. Examining accounts by beachcombers and missionaries, and offering a detailed discussion of the late Pacific writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vanessa Smith argues that the texts of contact and settlement are shaped at least as much by local contexts as by the agendas of their European authors.

Language: English

Pages: 316

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: November 17, 2005

ISBN: 0521022983

ISBN 13: 9780521022989

Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters

4/5 ( ratings)

This book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific that depict Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print and how they were appropriated and interrogated by Pacific peoples. Examining accounts by beachcombers and missionaries, and offering a detailed discussion of the late Pacific writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vanessa Smith argues that the texts of contact and settlement are shaped at least as much by local contexts as by the agendas of their European authors.

Language: English

Pages: 316

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: November 17, 2005

ISBN: 0521022983

ISBN 13: 9780521022989

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