Pacific Islands writing : the postcolonial literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania / Michelle Keown.

1 Introduction: Voyaging Through the Pacific
1.1 'Mapping' Pacific literatures
1.2 Defining Oceania: from 'South Seas' to 'South Pacific'
1.3 Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia: the 'culture
areas' of the Pacific
1.4 Key concepts and theoretical fi-ameworks
1.5 Chapter overview
2 Europeans in the Pacific
2.1 European representations of the Pacific in the late
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
2.2 Disease and degeneration: the impact of social
Darwinism on fin-de-sihcle Pacific writing
2.3 Settler fictions in Aotearoa/New Zealand
3 Warfare and Westernization: Narratives of Conflict,
Resistance, and Social Change
3.1 Colonial endeavours and Indigenous responses in the
early twentieth century: inscribing resistance
3.2 War in the Pacific
3.3 Maori warrior culture
4 The 1970s and Beyond: The Emergence of the 'New'
Pacific Literatures in English
4.1 Papua New Guinea
4.2 Fiji and the University of the South Pacific
4.3 Hawai'i and the 'American Pacific'
4.4 The Francophone Pacific
4-5 Easter Island/Rapa Nui: Hispanophone Pacific
literature
4.6 The Maori Renaissance and the emergence of Maori
literature in English
5 Orality, Textuality, and Memory: The Language of Pacific
Literatures
5.1 Pacific orthographies, contact languages, and the rise
of English
5.2 Oceanic oral and textual culture
5.3 Mythology and cultural memory
6 Conclusion: Pacific Diasporas
6.1 Globalization and Pacific diaspora culture
6.2 Pacific literary culture since 1990
6.3 Contemporary developments: drama and film