Acknowledgments ix. Introduction: The Written Pacific 1 (14). ``Talk languished on the beach'': The Possibility of Reciprocity in Robert Louis Stevenson's In the South Seas. 15 (58). ``These words are so changed in a native's mouth'': Contested...
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Acknowledgments ix. Introduction: The Written Pacific 1 (14). ``Talk languished on the beach'': The Possibility of Reciprocity in Robert Louis Stevenson's In the South Seas. 15 (58). ``These words are so changed in a native's mouth'': Contested Frames in William Ellis's Polynesian Researches. 73 (44). ``Typee or Happar?'': The Unsettling Narrative of Typee. 117 (56). ``This is the Book I write'': Jack London's Strictly Limited Body. 173 (54). Conclusion: Ambivalence and Authorship 227 (6). Notes 233 (32). Works Cited 265 (8). Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-272) and index
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Front cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Written Pacific; Chapter One. ""Talk languished on the beach"": The Possibility of Reciprocity in Robert Louis Stenenson's In the South Seas; Chapter Two. ""These words are so changed in a native's mouth"": Contested Frames in William Ellis's Polynesian Researches; Chapter Three. ""Typee or Happar?"": The Unsettling Narrative of Typee; Chapter Four. ""This is the book I write"": Jack London's Strictly Limited Body; Conclusion: Ambivalence and Authorship; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Back cover