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Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures (The New Oceania Literary Series) by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, Craig Santos Perez, Craig Santos Perez, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, Craig Santos Perez, Craig Santos Perez is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. This book itself is an ecological form with rhizomatic roots and blossoming branches. Within these pages, the reader will encounter a wild garden of genres, including poetry, chant, short fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, visual texts, and even a dramatic play—all written in multilingual offerings of English, Pacific languages, pidgin, and translation. Seven main themes emerge: “Creation Stories and Genealogies,” “Ocean and Waterscapes,” “Land and Islands,” “Flowers, Plants, and Trees,” “Animals and More-than-Human Species,” “Climate Change,” and “Environmental Justice.” This aesthetic diversity embodies the beautiful bio-diversity of the Pacific itself. The urgent voices in this book call us to attention—to action!—at a time of great need. Pacific ecologies and the lives of Pacific Islanders are currently under existential threat due to the legacy of environmental imperialism and the ongoing impacts of climate change. While Pacific writers cel

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Author

Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, Craig Santos Perez, Craig Santos Perez, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, Craig Santos Perez, Craig Santos Perez

Publisher

University of Hawaiʻi Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824891053

Category

nonfiction