The Rise of Pacific Literature : Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism / Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long, Maebh, author.

Hayward, Matthew (Lecturer in Pacific literature), author.

Series:

Modernist latitudes.

Modernist Latitudes Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pacific Island literature (English)--History and criticism.

Pacific Island literature (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward identify the local innovations and international networks that spurred Pacific literature's golden age by reading crucial works against the poetry, prose, and plays on the syllabi of the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Pacific Universities and Modernist Literature

1. Modernism, Pedagogy, and Pacific Writer-Scholars

2. Decolonizing the Literature Program, Generating the Niuginian Literary Scene

3. Traveling Editors and Indigenous Masks: The Teachings of Ulli Beier

4. Black Power and Pacific Existentialism: John Kasaipwalova and Russell Soaba

5. Preliminaries and Prologues: A National Scene in a Regional University

6. Mana on Campus: New Forms in Pacific Poetry and Prose

7. Subramani's Sugarcane Gothic: Haunting the Regional Dream

Coda: The Stories of Multitudes to Come

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231561730

0231561733

OCLC:

1451806253