Inside Out

A playwright and scholar, Vilsoni Hereniko is associate professor of Pacific Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and editor of the Talanoa series of Pacific literature. His recent plays include Last Virgin in Paradise and Fine Dancing. A poet and scholar, Rob Wilson is professor of English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His publications include American Sublime and Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Toward Imagining a New PacificPart 3 Writers Speak About Their WorkChapter 4 Writing in Captivity: Poetry in a Time of De-ColonizationChapter 5 Influences on WritingChapter 6 An Interview with Patricia GraceChapter 7 An Interview with Albert WendtChapter 8 An Interview with Alan DuffChapter 9 A Promise of Renewal: An Interview with Epeli Hau'ofaPart 10 Historical Perspective on the Pacific: Some OverviewsChapter 11 Our Sea of IslandsChapter 12 Representations of Cultural IdentitiesChapter 13 Developments on Creative Writing in West Polynesia: Fitting the Self into the Mosaic of the Contemporary PacificChapter 14 Reluctant Voices into Otherness: Practice and Appraisal in Papua New Guinea LiteratureChapter 15 In Search of a Written Fagogo: Contemporary Pacific Literature for ChildrenChapter 16 Reading Gauguin's Noa Noa with Hau'ofa's Nederends: Militourism, Feminism, and the Polynesian BodyPart 17 Creation and Criticism: Resisting Orientalism, Situating LiteratureChapter 18 Resisting Orientalism: Pacific Literature in FrenchChapter 19 Fearful apprehensions that consumed me: The Seen of Cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narritive and Herman Melville's TypeeChapter 20 Theory Verses Pacific Islands Writing: Toward a Tama'ita'i Criticism of the Works of Three Pacific Women PoetsChapter 21 Where the Spirits Laugh Last: Comic Theater in SamoaChapter 22 Wrestling with the Angel: Pacific Criticism and Harry Dansey's Te RaukuraChapter 23 In Whose Face?: An Essay on the Work of Alan DuffChapter 24 Talking Chief: The Role of the Critic in the Colonized PacificChapter 25 Preparing to Retheorize the Texts of OceaniaChapter 26 Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Hawai'ian Locality: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and BeyondChapter 27 De-Colonizing Hawaiian LiteratureChapter 28 Tatauing the Postcolonial BodyPart 29 AfterwordChapter 30 Pacific Literature at the End of the Twentieth Century

Weighty and comprehensive collection of twenty four new articles about literature, cultural politics, and identity in the 'New Pacific.' Each contributor writes with a unique voice. One of the book's greatest strengths is its presentation of new perspective, analysis, and historical and cultural information.