Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters

by Vanessa Smith

Book Overview

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"