Decolonizing cultures in the Pacific
Subtitle: reading history and trauma in contemporary fiction
By: by Susan Y. Najita.
Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- 14
Publisher: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415366694; 9780203019405
Subjects: Pacific Island fiction (English) -- History and criticism; Decolonization in literature; Indigenous peoples in literature; Oceania -- In literature; Hawaii -- In literature; New Zealand -- In literature; Samoa -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trauma and the construction of race in Holt's Waimea summer; title: Recounting the past, telling new futures : Albert Wendt's Leaves of the banyan tree and the "tropical" cure; title: "Fostering" a new vision of Maori community : trauma, history, and genealogy in Keri Hulme's The bone people; title: Talkin in circles : disrupting the logic of property in Pak's Watcher of Waipuna; title: Making Pakeha history: familial resemblances in Jane Campion's The piano.