Faculty of Arts
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Pacific Poetry in English 720 (Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh)
Primary Texts
Konai Helu Thaman (Kingdom of Tonga)You, the Choice of My Parents: Poems. Suva: SPCAS Mana Publications, 1974.
Langakali: Poems by Konai Helu Thaman. Suva, Fiji: Mana Publications, 1981.
Hingano: Selected Poems, 1966-1986. Suva: Mana Publications, 1987.
Kakala. Suva: SPCAS Mana Publications, 1993.
Songs of Love. Suva, Fiji: Mana Publications, 1999.
HAUNANI-KAY TRASK (Hawai`i)Light in the Crevice Never Seen. Corvallis, Oregon: Calyx Books, 1994.
Night is a Sharkskin Drum. Honolulu: U. Hawai`i P, 2002.
GRACE MERA MOLISA (Vanuatu)Black Stone: Poems. Port Vila, Vanuatu: Black Stone Publications, 1983.
Colonised People. Port Vila, Vanuatu: Black Stone Publications, 1987.
Black Stone II: Poems. Vanuatu: Black Stone Publications and Vanuatu USP Centre, 1989.
TERESIA TEAIWA (Kiribati/America) Searching for Nei Nim`anoa. Suva: Mana Publications, 1995.
TUSIATA AVIA (Samoa/Aotearoa)
Wild Dogs Under My Skirt. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2004.
KARLO MILA (Tonga/Samoa/Aotearoa)
Dream Fish Floating. Wellington: Huia Publishers, 2005.
Secondary Texts
Anzaldúa, Gloria, ed. Making Face, Making Soul - Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1990.
Christian, Barbara. Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers. New York: Pergamon P, 1985.
Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Davies, Carole Boyce and Elaine Savory Fido. eds. Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature. Trenton: Africa World P, 1990.
Dunlop, Peggy. "Samoan Writing: Searching for the Written Fagogo." Pacific Islands Communication Journal 14:1, 1985. 41-69.
Finnegan, Ruth and Margaret Orbell, eds. South Pacific Oral Traditions. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana U P, 1995.
Grewal, Shabnam. et al., eds. Charting the Journey: Writings by Black and Third World Women. London: Sheba Feminist Publications, 1988.
Gunew, Sneja and Anna Yeatman, eds. Feminism and the Politics of Difference. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1993.
Hau'ofa, Epeli. "Oral Traditions and Writing." Landfall 176 44.4 (1990): 402-411.
---. "Our Sea of Islands." Contemporary Pacific 6.1 Spring (1994): 148-161.
---. "Pacific Island Literature." Manoa 47-49.
Hereniko, Vilsoni and Rob Wilson, eds. Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
hooks, bell. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre. Boston: South End P, 1984.
Sharrad, Paul, ed. Readings in Pacific Literature. Wollongong, Australia: New Literatures Research Centre, U. of Wollongong, 1993.
Suaalii, Tamasailau M. "Deconstructing the 'Exotic' Female Beauty of the Pacific Islands and 'White' Male Desire." Women's Studies Journal: Indigenous Women in the Pacific 13.2 (1997): 75-94.
Subramani. "Artists in a Changing South Pacific: The Oral Poet and the Writers." Language and Literature in Multicultural Contexts. Ed. Satendra Nandan. Suva, Fjij: The University of the South Pacific and The Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies. 1983. 317-325.
---. South Pacific Literature: From Myth to Fabulation. Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific: Suva, Fiji. 1992.
Thiong'o, Ngugi wa. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1986.
Va`ai, Sina. Literary Representations in Western Polynesia: Colonialism and Indigeneity. Samoa: National University of Samoa, 1999.
Wall, Cheryl A., ed. Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women. New Brunswick & London: Rutgers U P, 1989.
Wendt, Albert. "Towards a New Oceania." Mana Review: A South Pacific Journal and Language and Literature. 1.1. January 1976. 49-60.
---. "The Writer As Fiction." Mana Eds, Jenny and Albert Wendt 8.1 (1983) 40-46.
---. "Tatauing the Post-colonial Body" in Hereniko and Wilson (eds).
