1st Edition
Unsettled Narratives The Pacific Writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville and London
By David Farrier
Copyright 2007
256 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Written Pacific
Chapter 1
"Talk languished on the beach": The Possibility of Reciprocity in Robert Louis Stevenson’s In the South Seas
Chapter 2
"These words are so changed in a native’s mouth": Contested Frames in William Ellis’s Polynesian Researches
Chapter 3
"Typee or Happar?": The Unsettling Narrative of Typee
Chapter 4
"This is the book I write": Jack London’s Strictly Limited Body
Conclusion: Ambivalence and Authorship
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Biography
David Farrier
