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 symbolic
capacities of writing, even as they were first being framed in
written representations. Examining accounts by beachcombers and
missionaries, she suggests that complex modes of self-authorization
informed the transmission of new cultural practices to the Pacific
peoples. This shift of attention towards reception and
appropriation provides the context for a detailed discussion of
Robert Louis Stevenson's late Pacific writings.
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