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

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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, and Jack London-and the consequences for the written text and the experience ...

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Unsettled Narratives: The Pacific Writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville and London 2014, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9781138813939

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Unsettled Narratives: The Pacific Writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville and London 2006, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780415979511

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