Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters

by Vanessa Smith

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This 1998 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521022983

ISBN13:9780521022989

Release Date:November 2005

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:316 Pages

Weight:1.02 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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