New Oceania : modernisms and modernities in the Pacific / edited by Matthew Hayward and Maebh Long.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hayward, Matthew, editor, contributor.

Long, Maebh, editor, contributor.

Mishra, Sudesh, contributor.

Boyd, Julia A., contributor.

Sharrad, Paul, contributor.

Etherington, Bonnie, contributor.

Lyons, Paul, contributor.

Te Punga Somerville, Alice, contributor.

O'Donnell, David, contributor.

Orr, Stanley, 1967- contributor.

Ellis, Juniper, contributor.

O'Carroll, John, contributor.

Friedman, Susan Stanford, contributor.

Series:

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pacific Island literature--History and criticism.

Pacific Island literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

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 global counterparts. In the second half of the twentieth century, driving a still ongoing process of decolonisation, Pacific Islanders forged an extraordinary cultural and artistic movement. Integrating Indigenous aesthetics, forms, and techniques with a range of other influences--realist novels, avant-garde poetry, anti-colonial discourse, biblical verse, Indian mythology, American television, Bollywood film--Pacific artists developed new creative registers to express the complexity of the region's transnational modernities. 'New Oceania' presents the first sustained account of the modernist dimensions of this period, while presenting timely reflections on the ideological and methodological limitations of the global modernism rubric. Breaking new critical ground, it brings together scholars from a range of backgrounds to demonstrate the relevance of modernism for Pacific scholars, and the relevance of Pacific literature for modernist scholars.

Contents:

'The space between' : Oceanian literature and modernist studies / Maebh long ; Matthew Hayward

'Kidnapped by a band of Western philosophers' : modernism and modernity in Oceania / Sudesh Mishra

ATOMic modern : Pacific women's modernities and the writing of nuclear resistance / Julia A. Boyd

No ordinary modernism : Hone Tuwhare's first book of verse / Paul Sharrad

'Our own identity' : Albert Wendt, James Joyce, and the indigenisation of influence / Matthew Hayward

Mapping modernity in Guam : the unincorporated ecologies of Craig Santos Perez's poetics / Bonnie Etherington

Africana calls, Pasifika responses : Ellison's 'Invisible Man, ' Soaba's 'Wanpis, ' and Oceanian literary modernism / Paul Lyons

Oceanian modernism and the little magazine / Maebh Long

'[Modernism] in Māori Life' : te ao hou / Alice Te Punga Somerville

Emergent modernities in Pacific theatre : Nina Nawalowalo and the conch / David O'Donnell

Driving-dress gods : modernism, cargosim, and the Fale Aitu tradition in John Kneubuhl's 'The Perils of Penrose' / Stanley Orr

Oceanian knowing and decolonial love in Sia Figiel's 'Freelove' / Juniper Ellis

On memory and modernity : Sudesh Mishra's Oceania / John O'Carroll

Oceania, the planetary, and the new modernist studies : a coda / Susan Stanford Friedman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780367250157

0367250152

OCLC:

1099832419

Publisher Number:

99983843927