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Indigenous Pacific Fiction in English
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This chapter examines the ‘niu wave’ of Indigenous Pacific novels written in English. The ‘new wave’ of South Pacific fiction was marked by the appearance of Albert Wendt's second anthology, Nuanua (1995), by new theorizing such as Epeli Hauʻofa's essay ‘Our Sea of Islands’ in A New Oceania (1993), and by the academic recognition of Pacific writing in collections of critical commentary such as Paul Sharrad's Reading Pacific Literature (1993). Two works by Regis Stella, Imagining the Other: The Representation of the Papua New Guinean Subject (2006) and Unfolding Petals: Readings in Modern PNG Literature (2012), have returned writing from the western Pacific to a more visible place in the region's culture. The chapter considers examples of the ‘niu wave’ and an expanded pan-Pacific awareness, including Rexford T. Orotaloa's Two Times Resurrection (1985), Sam Lidimani Alasia's Fata'abu: the voice of God (2003), Russell Soaba's Maiba (1985), and Celestine Hitiura Vaite's Breadfruit and Frangipani (2004).
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This chapter examines the ‘niu wave’ of Indigenous Pacific novels written in English.
The ‘new wave’ of South Pacific fiction was marked by the appearance of Albert Wendt's second anthology, Nuanua (1995), by new theorizing such as Epeli Hauʻofa's essay ‘Our Sea of Islands’ in A New Oceania (1993), and by the academic recognition of Pacific writing in collections of critical commentary such as Paul Sharrad's Reading Pacific Literature (1993).
Two works by Regis Stella, Imagining the Other: The Representation of the Papua New Guinean Subject (2006) and Unfolding Petals: Readings in Modern PNG Literature (2012), have returned writing from the western Pacific to a more visible place in the region's culture.
The chapter considers examples of the ‘niu wave’ and an expanded pan-Pacific awareness, including Rexford T.
Orotaloa's Two Times Resurrection (1985), Sam Lidimani Alasia's Fata'abu: the voice of God (2003), Russell Soaba's Maiba (1985), and Celestine Hitiura Vaite's Breadfruit and Frangipani (2004).
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