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Zusatztext Pacific Islands Writing is a very handy guide to the subject and will be a key reference to, and promoter of, this still under-appreciated but large corner of postcolonial literary studies. Keown and series editor Elleke Boehmer should be congratulated and every library should have a copy. Informationen zum Autor Michelle Keown was born and raised in Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is currently Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and has published widely on Mäori, Pacific Island and New Zealand writing. Klappentext Beginning with an overview of European representations of the Pacific! Michelle Keown presents a broad-ranging introduction to the postcolonial literatures of the Pacific from the late 1960s through to the new millennium! focusing mainly on writing in English! but also exploring the growing corpus of francophone and hispanophone Pacific writing. Zusammenfassung Beginning with an overview of European representations of the Pacific, Michelle Keown presents a broad-ranging introduction to the postcolonial literatures of the Pacific from the late 1960s through to the new millennium, focusing mainly on writing in English, but also exploring the growing corpus of francophone and hispanophone Pacific writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of maps and figures Chronology of key events and publications 1: Introduction: Voyaging Through the Pacific 2: Europeans in the Pacific 3: Warfare and Westernisation: Narratives of Conflict, Resistance, and Social Change 4: The 1970s and Beyond: the Emergence of the New Pacific Literatures in English 5: Orality, Textuality, and Memory: The Language of Pacific Literatures 6: Conclusion: Pacific Diasporas
