{"product_id":"pacific-islands-writing-the-postcolonial-literatures-of-aotearoanew-zealand-and-oceania-9780199276455","title":"Pacific Islands Writing: The Postcolonial Literatures of Aotearoa\/New Zealand and Oceania","description":"The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first book of its kind, \u003cem\u003ePacific Islands Writing\u003c\/em\u003e offers a broad-ranging introduction to the postcolonial literatures of the Pacific region. Drawing upon metaphors of oceanic voyaging, Michelle Keown takes the reader on a discursive journey through a variety of literary and cultural contexts in\u003cbr\u003ethe Pacific, exploring the Indigenous literatures of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, and also investigating a range of European or Western writing about the Pacific, from the adventure fictions of Herman Melville, R. L. Stevenson, and Jack London to the P: akeh: a European) settler literatures of\u003cbr\u003eAotearoa\/New Zealand. The book explores the relevance of 'international' postcolonial theoretical paradigms to a reading of Pacific literatures, but it also offers a region-specific analysis of key authors and texts, drawing upon Indigenous Pacific literary theories, and sketching in some of the key\u003cbr\u003esocio-historical trajectories that have inflected Pacific writing. Well-established Indigenous Pacific authors such as Albert Wendt, Witi Ihimaera, Alan Duff, and Patricia Grace are considered alongside emerging writers such as Sia Figiel, Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard, and Dan Taulapapa McMullin. The\u003cbr\u003ebook focuses primarily upon Pacific literature in English - the language used by the majority of Pacific writers - but also breaks new ground in examining the growing corpus of francophone and hispanophone writing in French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and Easter Island\/Rapa Nui.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michelle Keown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.44h x 7.13w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199276455\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichelle Keown was born and raised in Aotearoa\/New Zealand. She is currently Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and has published widely on Mäori, Pacific Island and New Zealand writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39934192746611,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6366cb14-0360-4b4e-8e5d-0ee7e623a50d.jpg?v=1647877252","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/pacific-islands-writing-the-postcolonial-literatures-of-aotearoanew-zealand-and-oceania-9780199276455","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}