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Scottish Literature of the South Seas
Critical Studies of Scotland and the Pacific
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This volume, edited by Richard J. Hill and Allison E. Francis, explores literary connections between Scotland and the Pacific. The contributors, including some of the worldâs foremost scholars in Scottish and Pacific studies, examine how Scottish writing about the Pacific, and Pacific engagement with Scottish culture, generates a cultural examination of Scotlandâs place in the British colonizing hierarchy.
While Robert Louis Stevenson was the principal Scottish author who shaped these early discussions, other prominent Scottish authors are also analyzed. Several chapters examine Scottish engagement with the South Seas, before and after Stevensonâs involvement with Pacific cultural and political affairs. The book lends weight and understanding as to why Pacific Islandersâboth immigrant and indigenousâoften claim affiliations with Scotland, and in the case of Hawaii and Samoa, to Stevenson in particular.
While Robert Louis Stevenson was the principal Scottish author who shaped these early discussions, other prominent Scottish authors are also analyzed. Several chapters examine Scottish engagement with the South Seas, before and after Stevensonâs involvement with Pacific cultural and political affairs. The book lends weight and understanding as to why Pacific Islandersâboth immigrant and indigenousâoften claim affiliations with Scotland, and in the case of Hawaii and Samoa, to Stevenson in particular.
Richard J. Hill received his Ph.D. in English from Edinburgh University and is Professor of English at Chaminade University of Honolulu. He is the author of Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels (Routledge, 2010), and Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text (Routledge, 2017).
Allison E. Francis received her PhD. in English from Washington University in St. Louis, and is a Professor of English, Theater and Performing Arts at Chaminade University of Honolulu. She co-edited South Seas Encounters: Nineteenth-Century Oceania, Britain, and America (Routledge, 2018), and co-authored a poetry collection, MulattaâNot So Tragic (Dodsworth Books, 2022).
Allison E. Francis received her PhD. in English from Washington University in St. Louis, and is a Professor of English, Theater and Performing Arts at Chaminade University of Honolulu. She co-edited South Seas Encounters: Nineteenth-Century Oceania, Britain, and America (Routledge, 2018), and co-authored a poetry collection, MulattaâNot So Tragic (Dodsworth Books, 2022).
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âRichard J. Hill
1 Dia-Colonialism in Scotland and Aotearoa
âSarah Paterson-Hamlin
2 Literary Perils of Piracy: the Strange Case of Alexander Selkirk
âAllison E. Francis
3 Omai the Traveller Meets George the Tourist: a Pacific Voyager at the Kingâs Visit to Edinburgh, 1822
âCaroline McCracken-Flesher
4 Sovereignty and the Shadows of Indigeneity: Stevensonâs Remediations of Scott in The Master of Ballantrae
âYoon Sun Lee
5 âWhere will all come home?â: Global Stevenson
âPenny Fielding
6 Empire on a Small Scale: Robert Louis Stevensonâs Footnote as a SÄmoan Microhistory
âLucio De Capitani
7 Turning The Ebb-Tide: Ghosts in the Machine
âRoslyn Jolly
8 Inter-Racial Intimacies: Stevensonâs Late Pacific Tales
âMandy Treagus
9 ââThe world was Like all New Paintedâ: Correspondences in Stevensonâs Rhetoric of Landscape in Kidnapped and The Beach of Falesáâ
âNathalie Jaëck
10 Blackbirding, Cannibalism, and the Demands of Appetite in John Cameronâs Odyssey
âAudrey Murfin
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âRichard J. Hill
1 Dia-Colonialism in Scotland and Aotearoa
âSarah Paterson-Hamlin
2 Literary Perils of Piracy: the Strange Case of Alexander Selkirk
âAllison E. Francis
3 Omai the Traveller Meets George the Tourist: a Pacific Voyager at the Kingâs Visit to Edinburgh, 1822
âCaroline McCracken-Flesher
4 Sovereignty and the Shadows of Indigeneity: Stevensonâs Remediations of Scott in The Master of Ballantrae
âYoon Sun Lee
5 âWhere will all come home?â: Global Stevenson
âPenny Fielding
6 Empire on a Small Scale: Robert Louis Stevensonâs Footnote as a SÄmoan Microhistory
âLucio De Capitani
7 Turning The Ebb-Tide: Ghosts in the Machine
âRoslyn Jolly
8 Inter-Racial Intimacies: Stevensonâs Late Pacific Tales
âMandy Treagus
9 ââThe world was Like all New Paintedâ: Correspondences in Stevensonâs Rhetoric of Landscape in Kidnapped and The Beach of Falesáâ
âNathalie Jaëck
10 Blackbirding, Cannibalism, and the Demands of Appetite in John Cameronâs Odyssey
âAudrey Murfin
Index
This book will appeal to scholars, post-graduates, and university libraries interested in Scottish studies, post-colonial studies, English literature, Scottish history, Scottish diasporic studies, and studies in comparative cultures. It will also interest Pacific researchers of European colonialism.