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New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific book cover

1st Edition

New Oceania Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific

Edited By Matthew Hayward, Maebh Long Copyright 2020
288 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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For so long figured in European discourses as the antithesis of modernity, the Pacific Islands have remained all but absent from the modernist studies’ critical map. Yet, as the chapters of New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific collectively show, Pacific artists and writers have been as creatively engaged in the construction and representation of modernity as any of their... Read more


  1. ‘The Space Between’: Oceanian Literature and Modernist Studies


    2. Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward







  2. ‘Kidnapped by a Band of Western Philosophers’: Modernism and Modernity in Oceania




    3. Sudesh Mishra







  3. ATOMic Modern: Pacific Women’s Modernities and the Writing of Nuclear Resistance




    4. Julia A. Boyd







  4. No Ordinary Modernism: Hone Tuwhare’s First Book of Verse




    5. Paul Sharrad







  5. ‘Our Own Identity’: Albert Wendt, James Joyce, and the Indigenisation of Influence




    6. Matthew Hayward







  6. Mapping Modernity in Guam: The Unincorporated Ecologies of Craig Santos Perez’s Poetics




    7. Bonnie Etherington







  7. Africana Calls, Pasifika Responses: Ellison’s Invisible Man, Soaba’s Wanpis, and Oceanian Literary Modernism




    8. Paul Lyons







  8. Oceanian Modernism and the Little Magazine




    9. Maebh Long







  9. ‘[Modernism] in Māori life’: Te Ao Hou




    10. Alice Te Punga Somerville







  10. Emergent Modernities in Pacific Theatre: Nina Nawalowalo and The Conch




    11. David O’Donnell







  11. Diving-Dress Gods: Modernism, Cargoism, and the Fale Aitu Tradition in John Kneubuhl’s ‘The Perils of Penrose’




    12. Stanley Orr







  12. Oceanian Knowing and Decolonial Love in Sia Figiel’s Freelove




    13. Juniper Ellis







  13. On Memory and Modernism: Sudesh Mishra’s Oceania




    14. John O’Carroll







  14. Oceania, the Planetary, and the New Modernist Studies: A Coda




Susan Stanford Friedman

Biography

Maebh Long is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa/New　Zealand





Matthew Hayward is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of the South Pacific

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