Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific : Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780415468855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008

Y. Najita Susan

Opis

Proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence.

Spis treści

Introduction: toward a decolonizing reading praxis, 1 Trauma and the construction of race in John Dominis Holt’s Waimea Summer 2 Recounting the past, telling new futures: Albert Wendt’s Leaves of the Banyan Tree and the “tropical” cure 3 “Fostering” a new vision of Maori community: trauma, history,and genealogy in Keri Hulme’s Th e Bone People 4 “Talking in circles”: disrupting the logic of property in Gary Pak’s The Watcher of Waipuna 5 Making Pakeha history: familial resemblances in Jane Campion’s The Piano, Epilogue

O autorze

Susan Y. Najita is an Assistant Professor in English and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.