Fraught Literacy: Competing Desires for Connection and Separation in the Writings of American Missionary Women in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i
Daphne Desser

Letters and journals of American missionary women in early 19th century Hawai’i express conflicting desires.  In some ways, the writers seek connection with the rest of the missionary community and with Native Hawaiians.  In other ways, they try to separate themselves from these two groups.  

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