Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Toward Imagining a New Pacific
Part 3 Writers Speak About Their Work
Chapter 4 Writing in Captivity: Poetry in a Time of De-Colonization
Chapter 5 Influences on Writing
Chapter 6 An Interview with Patricia Grace
Chapter 7 An Interview with Albert Wendt
Chapter 8 An Interview with Alan Duff
Chapter 9 A Promise of Renewal: An Interview with Epeli Hau'ofa
Part 10 Historical Perspective on the Pacific: Some Overviews
Chapter 11 Our Sea of Islands
Chapter 12 Representations of Cultural Identities
Chapter 13 Developments on Creative Writing in West Polynesia: Fitting the Self into the Mosaic of the Contemporary Pacific
Chapter 14 Reluctant Voices into Otherness: Practice and Appraisal in Papua New Guinea Literature
Chapter 15 In Search of a Written Fagogo: Contemporary Pacific Literature for Children
Chapter 16 Reading Gauguin's Noa Noa with Hau'ofa's Nederends: Militourism, Feminism, and the Polynesian Body
Part 17 Creation and Criticism: Resisting Orientalism, Situating Literature
Chapter 18 Resisting Orientalism: Pacific Literature in French
Chapter 19 Fearful apprehensions that consumed me: The Seen of Cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narritive and Herman Melville's Typee
Chapter 20 Theory Verses Pacific Islands Writing: Toward a Tama'ita'i Criticism of the Works of Three Pacific Women Poets
Chapter 21 Where the Spirits Laugh Last: Comic Theater in Samoa
Chapter 22 Wrestling with the Angel: Pacific Criticism and Harry Dansey's Te Raukura
Chapter 23 In Whose Face?: An Essay on the Work of Alan Duff
Chapter 24 Talking Chief: The Role of the Critic in the Colonized Pacific
Chapter 25 Preparing to Retheorize the Texts of Oceania
Chapter 26 Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Hawai'ian Locality: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond
Chapter 27 De-Colonizing Hawaiian Literature
Chapter 28 Tatauing the Postcolonial Body
Part 29 Afterword
Chapter 30 Pacific Literature at the End of the Twentieth Century