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Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific : Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction by SUSAN Y. (SUSAN YUKIE) NAJITA, Susan Najita, Susan Y. Najita, by Susan Y. Najita is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

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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

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Author

SUSAN Y. (SUSAN YUKIE) NAJITA, Susan Najita, Susan Y. Najita, by Susan Y. Najita

Publisher

Taylor & Francis; Routledge

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781134211722

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25