Fraught literacy: Competing desires for connection and separation in the writings of American missionary women in nineteenth-century Hawai'i

College English

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 443-469

  Desser, Daphne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 34249745260     PISSN: 00100994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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