Vanessa Smith

Literary Culture and the Pacific

Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters
Herausgeber: Beer, Gillian

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Produktbeschreibung

This 1998 book examines nineteenth-century European accounts of contact and settlement in the Pacific, and Polynesian responses to technologies of writing and print.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780521573597
• ISBN-10: 0521573599
• Artikelnr.: 29339235

Autorenporträt

Vanessa Hedwig Smith is a painter, filmmaker, and writer who has lived and worked in India, Nepal, England, and the US. She has worked on feature-length documentaries, shorts, PSAs, music videos, outdoor installations, murals, and other design projects. Smith produced a BBC Correspondent which helped free a 14-year old girl from prison, helped to change Nepalese law, and won the Amnesty International Media 2000 Award. She holds a BA from Stanford in Urban Design, and an MA from Columbia University in Anthropology. Her work can be seen at http://vanessahsmithpictures.com

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: acts of reading
1. 'A gift of fabrication': the beachcomber as bricoleur
2. Lip service and conversation
3. 'Other people's books': Stevenson's Pacific travels
4. Piracy and exchange: Stevenson's Pacific fictions
5. In the press of events: Stevenson's Pacific history
Afterword: 'the impediment of tongues'
Notes
Bibliography
Index.