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Author:

Najita, Susan Y. (Susan Yukie)

Title:

Decolonizing cultures in the Pacific : reading history and trauma in contemporary fiction / Susan Y. Najita.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xviii, 236 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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 (p. [204]-219) and index.

Contents:

Trauma and the construction of race in John Dominis Holt's Waimea summer -- Recounting the past, telling new futures : Albert Wendt's Leaves of the banyan tree and the "tropical" cure -- "Fostering" a new vision of Maori community : trauma, history, and genealogy in Keri Hulme's The bone people -- "Talking in circles" : disrupting the logic of property in Gary Pak's The watcher of Waipuna -- Making Pakeha history : familial resemblances in Jane Campion's The piano.

Series:

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 14

ISBN:

9780203019405 (ebk)
0203019407 (ebk)
9780415366694 (hbk)
0415366690 (hbk)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)65201208

LCCN:

2006008370

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)