Pacific Islands writing : the postcolonial literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania /
Pacific Islands Writing offers a broad-ranging introduction to the postcolonial literatures of the Pacific region. Drawing upon metaphors of oceanic voyaging, Michelle Keown takes the reader on a discursive journey through a variety of literary and cultural contexts in the Pacific, exploring the Ind...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures in English
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| Summary: | Pacific Islands Writing offers a broad-ranging introduction to the postcolonial literatures of the Pacific region. Drawing upon metaphors of oceanic voyaging, Michelle Keown takes the reader on a discursive journey through a variety of literary and cultural contexts in the Pacific, exploring the Indigenous literatures of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, and also investigating a range of European or Western writing about the Pacific, from the adventure fictions of Herman Melville, R.L. Stevenson, and Jack London to the Pakeha European settler literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The book explores the relevance of 'international' postcolonial theoretical paradigms to a reading of Pacific literatures, but it also offers a region-specific analysis of key authors and texts, drawing upon Indigenous Pacific literary theories, and sketching in some of the key socio-historical trajectories that have inflected Pacific writing. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 270 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199229130 0199229139 9780199276455 0199276455 |