Introduction (Island Tales: New Creative Interpretations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Writing)
Keown, Michelle Chapman-Kelly, Alice Grennan, Simon Sabeti, Shari
Keown, Michelle
Chapman-Kelly, Alice
Grennan, Simon
Sabeti, Shari
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The research explores the legacies of Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific writing (c. 1893), investigating the relevance of his work to contemporary readers in Sāmoa, Scotland and Hawai'i. This is a written Introduction to an anthology of adaptations and creative responses to Stevenson’s Pacific writing by artists, scholar and artists/scholars Solomon Enos, Simon Grennan, Keao Nesmith, Lalovai Pesetā, Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard and Selina Tusitala Marsh.
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Keown, M., Chapman-Kelly, A., Grennan, S., & Sabeti, S. (2025 - forthcoming). Introduction. In A. Chapman-Kelly, S. Grennan, M. Keown & S. Sabeti (Eds.), Island Tales: New Creative Interpretations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Writing (pp. 8-11). Bess Press.
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Remediating Stevenson: Decolonising Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction through Graphic Adaptation, Arts Education and Community Engagement | Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council | Grant ID: AH/W007010/1