Literary Culture and the Pacific

Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters

By:

Vanessa Smith

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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This book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific, depicting Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print. Texts designed to present self-affirming images of 'native' wonderment at European culture in fact betray the emergence of more complex modes of appropriation and interrogation by the Pacific peoples. Vanessa Smith argues that the Pacific islanders called into question the material basis and symbolic capacities of writing, even as they were first being framed in written representations. Examining accounts by beachcombers and missionaries, she suggests that complex modes of self-authorisation informed the transmission of new cultural practices to the Pacific peoples. This shift of attention towards reception and appropriation provides the context for a detailed discussion of Robert Louis Stevenson's late Pacific writings.

Release date Australia

January 8th, 1998

Author

Vanessa Smith

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

1 Maps; 9 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

314

Series

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x22

ISBN-13

9780521573597

Product ID

2160378

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