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Issue Details: First known date: 1967... 1967 Introduction
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    y separately published work icon South Sea Supercargo Louis Becke , A. Grove Day (editor), Brisbane : Jacaranda Press , 1967 Z539022 1967 selected work short story A collection of stories, some of which feature Becke's alter ego, Tom Denison. Others are apparently based on his one-time employer in Apia, Mrs Mary Macfarlane, and the blackbirder 'Bully' Hayes, as well as other characters he encountered in his Pacific wanderings. The stories draw heavily on Becke's own experiences and certainly have autobiographical components but they are not, as Professor Day's introduction implies, autobiographical in the strictest sense of the word. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press , 1967 pg. 1 - 11
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Pacific Scholarship, Literary Criticism, and Touristic Desire: The Specter of A. Grove Day Paul Lyons , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Boundary 2 , Summer vol. 24 no. 2 1997; (p. 47-78) 'In 1979, Day received the Hawaii Award for Literature. Upon his death in 1994, Day was eulogized in a Honolulu Advertiser editorial as "Hawaii's Literary Lion," to whom "Hawaii and the rest of the Pacific owe . . . a particular literary debt." The editorial concluded that Day was "the pre-eminent source" for the literature of the South Seas, as well as "a scholar and serious literary historian."' In this, Day appeared as the "literary man" in a larger project involving a variety of Pacific experts centered around the university and the Bishop Museum, most of whom took more "scientific,"less library-bound approaches, and some of whom were explicitly concerned with the preservation (if not perpetuation) of Hawaiian and other Pacific cultures. Though Day did associate with these scholars in what was a much smaller university setting (the university went from 2,500 students in 1946 to 25,000 in 1976), his literary vision has left a different legacy from the work of scholars such as Kenneth Emory (archaeology), Katherine Luomala (folklore), and Samuel Elbert (linguistics). Day's legacy has been noted by Subramani and Stephen Sumida, among others in passing, but he has received no sustained critique.' (56-57)
Pacific Scholarship, Literary Criticism, and Touristic Desire: The Specter of A. Grove Day Paul Lyons , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Boundary 2 , Summer vol. 24 no. 2 1997; (p. 47-78) 'In 1979, Day received the Hawaii Award for Literature. Upon his death in 1994, Day was eulogized in a Honolulu Advertiser editorial as "Hawaii's Literary Lion," to whom "Hawaii and the rest of the Pacific owe . . . a particular literary debt." The editorial concluded that Day was "the pre-eminent source" for the literature of the South Seas, as well as "a scholar and serious literary historian."' In this, Day appeared as the "literary man" in a larger project involving a variety of Pacific experts centered around the university and the Bishop Museum, most of whom took more "scientific,"less library-bound approaches, and some of whom were explicitly concerned with the preservation (if not perpetuation) of Hawaiian and other Pacific cultures. Though Day did associate with these scholars in what was a much smaller university setting (the university went from 2,500 students in 1946 to 25,000 in 1976), his literary vision has left a different legacy from the work of scholars such as Kenneth Emory (archaeology), Katherine Luomala (folklore), and Samuel Elbert (linguistics). Day's legacy has been noted by Subramani and Stephen Sumida, among others in passing, but he has received no sustained critique.' (56-57)
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