Francophone Oceania Today

Michelle Royer is an Associate professor at the University of Sydney. She is a researcher in twentieth and twenty-first century cinema and a specialist in the life and works of Margeurite Duras. Nathalie Ségeral received a PhD from UCLA in 2012 and has since held positions at Virginia Tech, the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, motherhood and trauma studies in contemporary French and Francophone literature and culture. Léa Vuong is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney. She works on 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone culture, with a particular interest in word and image interactions.

• INTRODUCTION (Michelle Royer, Nathalie Ségeral, Léa Vuong)PART 1: New Crossings in Oceanian Artistic and Cinematic NetworksChapter 1: Museographical approaches to the French Pacific collections from the Musée du quai Branly and the Musée de Tahiti et des Îles: an interview with Stéphanie Leclerc Caffarel and Miriama Bono (Victoria Souliman)Chapter 2: 'Our identity lies ahead of us'. The Tjibaou Cultural Centre Ngan Jila 25 years on: what vision to hope for the house of riches? (Susan Cochrane and Guillaume Soulard)Chapter 3: Empowering Oceanic Voices: Francophone Film Festivals and Visual Autonomy (Michelle Royer)PART 2: Solidarity, Trans-insular Links, and Ecocritical Activism in Contemporary OceaniaChapter 4: Reframing Francophone Travel Writing in Oceania: The Case of ‘Peuples de l’eau’ (Cécile Dô Hûu)Chapter 5: (Re-)Mothering the Island: Chantal T. Spitz and Imasango’s Poetic of Motherhood (Nathalie Ségeral)Chapter 6: ‘Wrapped Islands’ and invisible artists: rethinking contemporary art in Oceania today (Léa Vuong)PART 3: Performing the Present, Reconfiguring the Past: Contemporary Photography, Theatre and MusicChapter 7: Opaque Visions of Polynesia: Word and Image Interactions in Marie-Hélène Villierme’s Visages de Polynésie, Faces of Polynesia (Josie Goldman)Chapter 8: Titaua Porcher’s Hina, Maui et compagnie: Theatre for a Snapchat Culture (Julia Frengs)Chapter 9: Navigating Island Life: Performing Musicians in the Francophone South Pacific. (Florence Boulard and Ryan Daniel)Part 4: Islands of Shattered Dreams, 15 Years On Chapter 10: Decolonial Dilemmas? On Translating Chantal Spitz (Jean Anderson)Why I Wrote L'Île des rêves écrasés (Island of Shattered Dreams) Taking up writing, taking up resistance and questioning official historical narratives (Chantal Spitz, trans. by Jean Anderson).Chapter 12: Rosalie (Chantal T. Spitz, trans. by Jean Anderson)Chapter 13: The Quiet Spot (Nicolas Kurtovitch, trans. by Jean Anderson).Notes on contributors

"Francophone Oceania Today provides a valuable overview of literary, visual, and museum culture in the Pacific, with attention to the circulation and reception of this work. A collaboration among early-career and established academics, museum professionals and authors, the volume includes exciting new work by Chantal Spitz and recent translations of New Caledonian literary production by Jean Anderson." Associate Professor Leslie Barnes, Australian National University