The Postcolonial Literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania (Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures)
Edición de la obra Pacific Islands Writing
| Autor | Michelle Keown |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | November 2, 2007 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 192 |
| Formato | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9780199276455 |
| ISBN-10 | 0199276455 |
| OCLC | 86166539 |
| LCCN | 2008353858 |
| Número de Cutter |
K37p |
Pacific Islands Writing offers a broad-ranging introduction to the postcolonial literatures of the Pacific region. Drawing upon metaphors of oceanic voyaging, Michelle Keown takes the reader on a discursive journey through a variety of literary and cultural contexts in the Pacific, exploring the Indigenous literatures of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, and also investigating a range of European or Western writing about the Pacific, from the adventure fictions of Herman Melville, R. L. Stevenson, and Jack London to the Pakeha European settler literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The book explores the relevance of 'international' postcolonial theoretical paradigms to a reading of Pacific literatures, but it also offers a region-specific analysis of key authors and texts, drawing upon Indigenous Pacific literary theories, and sketching in some of the key socio-historical trajectories that have inflected Pacific writing.