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Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 13) by Smith, Vanessa (Vanessa Jane) is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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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 called into question the material basis and
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- Author
- Smith, Vanessa (Vanessa Jane)
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521022989
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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