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Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific - Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction (Paperback)
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Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific - Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
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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. Decolonizing Cultures
in the Pacific is a valuable addition to the fields of Pacific and
Postcolonial Studies and also contributes to struggles for cultural
decolonization in Oceania: contemporary writers' critical
engagement with colonialism and indigenous culture, Najita argues,
provides a powerful tool for navigating a decolonized future.
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