The Pacific Tale Short Fiction from 1890-1950 /
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| Summary: | XIII, 231 p. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2025.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2025. |
| Series: | Maritime Literature and Culture,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92658-7 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Pacific Tale
- 2. Emptying the Imperial Romance: Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Ebb-Tide
- 3. Mapping, Mastery and Islander Women: The Traders’ Voice in Louis Becke’s By Reef and Palm
- 4. Jack London in the Solomons: Race, Labour and Melanesianism in South Sea Tales
- 5. Late-Colonial Breakdown in the Tropics: W. Somerset Maugham’s The Trembling of a Leaf
- 6. The Pacific as Polynesian Belle: James A. Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific and Military Occupation
- 7. Beyond the Pacific Tale.