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List of Maps and Figures xi
Pacific Islands Timeline xii
Introduction: Voyaging Through the Pacific 1
'Mapping' Pacific literatures 1
Defining Oceania: from 'South Seas' to 'South Pacific' 11
Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia: the 'culture areas' of the Pacific 13
Key concepts and theoretical frameworks 17
Chapter overview 25
Europeans in the Pacific 28
European representations of the Pacific in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 29
Disease and degeneration: the impact of social Darwinism on fin-de-siecle Pacific writing 39
Settler fictions in Aotearoa/New Zealand 51
Warfare and Westernization: Narratives of Conflict, Resistance, and Social Change 68
Colonial endeavours and Indigenous responses in the early twentieth century: inscribing resistance 70
War in the Pacific 80
Maori warrior culture 99
The 1970s and Beyond: The Emergence of the 'New' Pacific Literatures in English 109
Papua New Guinea 111
Fiji and the University of the South Pacific 116
Hawai'i and the 'American Pacific' 126
The Francophone Pacific 133
Easter Island/Rapa Nui: Hispanophone Pacific literature 137
The Maori Renaissance and the emergence of Maori literature in English 138
Orality, Textuality, and Memory: The Language of Pacific Literatures 147
Pacific orthographies, contact languages, and the rise of English 148
Oceanic oral and textual culture 162
Mythology and cultural memory 178
Conclusion: Pacific Diasporas 185
Globalization and Pacific diaspora culture 186
Pacific literary culture since 1990 196
Contemporary developments: drama and film 207
Notes 226
Glossary and List of Acronyms 231
References 234
Index 253
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