Rise of Pacific Literature - Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism

Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward identify the local innovations and international networks that spurred Pacific literature's golden age by reading crucial works against the poetry, prose, and plays on the syllabi of the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Pacific Universities and Modernist Literature
1. Modernism, Pedagogy, and Pacific Writer-Scholars
2. Decolonizing the Literature Program, Generating the Niuginian Literary Scene
3. Traveling Editors and Indigenous Masks: The Teachings of Ulli Beier
4. Black Power and Pacific Existentialism: John Kasaipwalova and Russell Soaba
5. Preliminaries and Prologues: A National Scene in a Regional University
6. Mana on Campus: New Forms in Pacific Poetry and Prose
7. Subramani’s Sugarcane Gothic: Haunting the Regional Dream
Coda: The Stories of Multitudes to Come
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Maebh Long is senior lecturer in English at the University of Waikato. She is the author of Assembling Flann O’Brien (2014) and editor of The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien (2018).

Matthew Hayward is senior lecturer in literature and acting head of the School of Pacific Arts, Communication, and Education at the University of the South Pacific.

Long and Hayward are coinvestigators of the Oceanian Modernism project and coeditors of New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific (2019).

Summary

Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward identify the local innovations and international networks that spurred Pacific literature’s golden age by reading crucial works against the poetry, prose, and plays on the syllabi of the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Hayward, Matthew Long Hayward, Matthew/ Long Hayward, Hayward Matthew, Maebh Long, Long Maebh
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2024
• EAN: 9780231217446
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21744-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Modernist Latitudes
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; EDUCATION / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Oceania, LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian, History of Education, Australasian & Pacific history, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Australasian and Pacific history, Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands, Australasia, Oceania & other land areas, Literary Criticism, Literary studies: postcolonial literature