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David Hanlon's Spectrum of Flight is a chapbook of poetry about
accepting your identity, overcoming homophobia and learning to love
yourself in the face of hatred. This is a journey of healing, of
acceptance, and of knowing your worth. These poems will sting,
illuminate, confront, and ultimately heal.
The Carolina, Mariana and Marshall Islands have experienced world
war, atomic weapons testing and varying brands of colonialism in
the 20th century. Following the seizure of the islands from Japan,
agencies of the US government sought to better possess and control
the area through a series of developmental initiatives.
Interdisciplinary in its approach, this text goes beyond the
liberal discourse surrounding modernity to examine what economic
development actually entailed. It explores in ethnographic terms
how different groups of island people responded to development
programmes in multiple, complex, layered and sometimes conflicting
ways that reflected their own historical experiences and cultural
understandings.
The Carolina, Mariana and Marshall Islands have experienced world
war, atomic weapons testing and varying brands of colonialism in
the 20th century. Following the seizure of the islands from Japan,
agencies of the US government sought to better possess and control
the area through a series of developmental initiatives.
Interdisciplinary in its approach, this text goes beyond the
liberal discourse surrounding modernity to examine what economic
development actually entailed. It explores in ethnographic terms
how different groups of island people responded to development
programmes in multiple, complex, layered and sometimes conflicting
ways that reflected their own historical experiences and cultural
understandings.
In a time of dynamism and contradiction in Pacific cultural
production, a time of 'turning things over' and 'writing from the
inside out, ' this far-reaching volume provides a comprehensive set
of essays and interviews on the emergent literatures of the New
Pacific. With its dynamic combination of important position papers,
polemics, and decolonizing critiques by noted authors and of
analysis by new and established post-colonial scholars, this volume
exposes 'the maze and mix of literatures and cultural identities
breaking down and building up across the Pacific Ocean.' This
pioneering work will be the definitive resource for anyone
researching or teaching Pacific literature and will be invaluable
for bringing Pacific culture to readers outside the region
Making Micronesia is the story of Tosiwo Nakayama, the first
president of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Born to a
Japanese father and an island woman in 1931 on an atoll northwest
of the main Chuuk Lagoon group, Nakayama grew up during Japan's
colonial administration of greater Micronesia and later proved
adept at adjusting to life in post-war Chuuk and under the
American-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. After
studying at the University of Hawai'i, Nakayama returned to Chuuk
in 1958 and quickly advanced through a series of administrative
positions before winning election to the House of Delegates (later
Senate) of the Congress of Micronesia. He served as its president
from 1965 to 1967 and again from 1973 to 1978. More than any other
individual, Nakayama is credited with managing the complex
political discussions on Saipan in 1975 that resulted in a national
constitution for the different Micronesian states that made up the
Trust Territory. A proponent of independence, he was a key player
in the lengthy negotiations with the U.S. government and throughout
the islands that culminated in the Compact of Free Association and
the eventual creation of the FSM. In 1979 Nakayama was elected the
first president of the FSM and spent the next eight years working
to solidify an island nation and to see the Compact of Free
Association through to approval and implementation. One wonders
what the contemporary political configuration of the western
Pacific would look like without Tosiwo Nakayama. His story,
however, involves much more than a narrative of political events.
Nakayama's rise to prominence constitutes a remarkable story given
the physical, political, and cultural distances he negotiated. His
engagements with colonialism, decolonization, and nation-making
place him squarely in the middle of the most important issues in
twentieth-century Pacific Islands history. The study of his life
also invites a reconsideration of migration, transnational
crossings, and the actual size of island worlds. Making Micronesia
follows Nakayama's life through time, focusing on the expansiveness
of his vision. In many ways, "Macronesia," not "Micronesia," seems
a more appropriate term for the world he inhabited and tried to
make accessible to others.
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