Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific(Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives)

In a time of dynamism and contradiction in Pacific cultural production, a time of turning things over and writing from the inside out, this far-reaching volume provides a comprehensive set of essays and interviews on the emergent literatures of the New Pacific. With its dynamic combination of important position papers, polemics, and decolonizing critiques by noted authors and of analysis by new and established post-colonial scholars, this volume exposes the maze and mix of literatures and cultural identities breaking down and building up across the Pacific Ocean.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Toward Imagining a New Pacific
Part 3 Writers Speak About Their Work
Chapter 4 Writing in Captivity: Poetry in a Time of De-Colonization
Chapter 5 Influences on Writing
Chapter 6 An Interview with Patricia Grace
Chapter 7 An Interview with Albert Wendt
Chapter 8 An Interview with Alan Duff
Chapter 9 A Promise of Renewal: An Interview with Epeli Hau'ofa
Part 10 Historical Perspective on the Pacific: Some Overviews
Chapter 11 Our Sea of Islands
Chapter 12 Representations of Cultural Identities
Chapter 13 Developments on Creative Writing in West Polynesia: Fitting the Self into the Mosaic of the Contemporary Pacific
Chapter 14 Reluctant Voices into Otherness: Practice and Appraisal in Papua New Guinea Literature
Chapter 15 In Search of a Written Fagogo: Contemporary Pacific Literature for Children
Chapter 16 Reading Gauguin's Noa Noa with Hau'ofa's Nederends: Militourism, Feminism, and the Polynesian Body
Part 17 Creation and Criticism: Resisting Orientalism, Situating Literature
Chapter 18 Resisting Orientalism: Pacific Literature in French
Chapter 19 Fearful apprehensions that consumed me: The Seen of Cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narritive and Herman Melville's Typee
Chapter 20 Theory Verses Pacific Islands Writing: Toward a Tama'ita'i Criticism of the Works of Three Pacific Women Poets
Chapter 21 Where the Spirits Laugh Last: Comic Theater in Samoa
Chapter 22 Wrestling with the Angel: Pacific Criticism and Harry Dansey's Te Raukura
Chapter 23 In Whose Face?: An Essay on the Work of Alan Duff
Chapter 24 Talking Chief: The Role of the Critic in the Colonized Pacific
Chapter 25 Preparing to Retheorize the Texts of Oceania
Chapter 26 Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Hawai'ian Locality: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond
Chapter 27 De-Colonizing Hawaiian Literature
Chapter 28 Tatauing the Postcolonial Body
Part 29 Afterword
Chapter 30 Pacific Literature at the End of the Twentieth Century