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

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

Najita, Susan Y.

Paperback

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 041546885X
ISBN13: 9780415468855
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 1 2008
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita 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. In particular, she examines how contemporary writers from Hawai'i, Samoa, and Aotearoa/New Zealand remember, re-tell, and deploy this violent history in their work. As Pacific peoples negotiate their paths towards sovereignty and chart their postcolonial futures, these writers play an invaluable role in invoking and commenting upon the various uses of the histories of colonial resistance, allowing themselves and their readers to imagine new futures by exorcising the past.

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