Unsettled Narratives: The Pacific Writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville and London

by David Farrier

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In the nineteenth-century Pacific, the production of a text of encounter occurred in tandem with the production of a settled space; asserting settler presence through the control of the space and the context of the encounter. Indigenous resistance therefore took place through modes of representation that 'unsettled' the text. This book considers the work of four Western visitors to the Pacific--Robert Louis Stevenson, William Ellis, Herman Melville,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1138813931

ISBN13:9781138813939

Release Date:April 2015

Publisher:Routledge

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.97 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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