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Barclay, Robert (Marshall Islands/Hawai'i)
Home page, including information about Melal:
http://www.robert-barclay.com
Brash, Nora Vagi (Papua New Guinea)
Profile and Bibliography:
http://www.tanorama.com/nvb.htm
Campbell, Alistair (Cook Islands/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/campbell.htm
Davenport, Kiana (Hawai'i)
Profile:
http://www.lone-crow.com/eurasianlit/profiles/davenport_k.html
Reviews of Shark Dialogues:
http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=3710
http://www.alicemagazine.com/the_fun_stuff/2000_05/shark_dialogues.html
Review of Song of the Exile:
http://www.radcliffe.edu/quarterly/199903/books-2.html
Davis, Tom (Cook Islands/New Zealand)
Vaka: Saga of a Polynesian Canoe:
http://www.seatalebooks.com/polynesian_canoes.htm
Literature of the Cook Islands:
http://www.ck/books2.htm
Duff, Alan (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/duff.htm
Profile:
http://www2.vuw.ac.nz/nzbookcouncil/writers/duffalan.htm
Eri, Vincent (Papua New Guinea)
Brief Summary of "The Crocodile":
http://www.mcauley.acu.edu.au/staff/simonr/pacific.htm
English in the South Pacific:
http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/paclangunit/English_South_Pacific.htm
Figiel, Sia (Samoa)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/figiel.htm
Biography and audio reading:
http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/figiel/
Interview:
http://195.157.68.238/projects/futures/figieli.html
Interview with images of her paintings:
http://www.frigatezine.com/essay/lives/eli03sia.html
Terenesia: Amplified Poetry and Songs by Teresia
Teaiwa and Sia Figiel:
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/dougwords/terenesia/
Frisbie, Johnny (Pukapuka, Cook Islands/New Zealand)
Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka:
http://perso.club-internet.fr/jacbayle/livres/Femmes/Frisbie.html
Article about her children's books:
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/2000/Feb/13/bob.html
Quiet Night:
http://www.learningmedia.co.nz/moecatdetail.php?recno=1480
Nightmare on Anchorage Island:
http://www.learningmedia.co.nz/moecatdetail.php?recno=2242
'E Pānikiniki:
http://www.learningmedia.co.nz/moecatdetail.php?recno=304
I Mua Atu o te Tafatafākilagi:
http://www.learningmedia.co.nz/moecatdetail.php?recno=654
I Muri Atu i te Paerangi:
http://www.learningmedia.co.nz/moecatdetail.php?recno=655
Literature of the Cook Islands:
http://www.ck/books2.htm
Grace, Patricia (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/grace.htm
Profile:
http://www2.vuw.ac.nz/nzbookcouncil/writers/gracep.htm
"Patricia Grace and Complete Communication" by Jane McRae:
http://www.arts.uwo.ca/~andrewf/anzsc/anzsc10/mcrae10.htm
"'Another Foothold': Exile and Return in Patricia
Grace's Mutuwhenua" by William McGraw:
http://www.arts.uwo.ca/~andrewf/anzsc/anzsc6/mcgaw6.htm
"Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace: The Maori
Renaissance" by Mark Williams:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl392/492/williams.html
Grace-Smith, Briar (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/grace_sm.htm
Hau'ofa, Epeli (Tonga/Fiji)
@ Digital Liaisons:
http://arts.abc.net.au/headspace/liaisons/hauofa.htm
Opening address, Red Wave Collective:
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/artok/visual/s197256.htm
"A Sea of Islands" by Sam Low:
http://pvs.hawaii.org/home2000/seaofislands.html
On Our Sea of Islands:
http://www.relpac.org.fj/oceania.htm
"Sometimes a Great Ocean: Thinking the Pacific from
Nowhere to Now & Here" by Jolisa Gracewood:
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~critmass/v5n1/gracewood1.html
"'Developing'" the Critical Pacific: Epeli Hau'ofa's 'The
Glorious Pacific Way'" by Charlene Gima:
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~critmass/v5n1/gima1.html
Hereniko, Vilsoni (Fiji)
Home page:
http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/rotuma/Images/hereniko/herenikohome.htm
Publications:
http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/rotuma/Images/hereniko/vilivita.htm
The Last Virgin in Paradise:
http://performingarts.net/Theatre/1995-96Season.LastVirgin.HTML
Woven Gods: Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma:
http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/rotuma/os/WovenGods.html
Hulme, Keri (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/hulme.htm
Interview: "Reconsidering the bone people":
http://www.arts.uwo.ca/~andrewf/anzsc/anzsc12/hulme12.htm
Ihimaera, Witi (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/ihimaera.htm
"Dinner with the Cannibal":
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/36/Ihimaera.html
"Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace: The Maori Renaissance" by
Mark Williams:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl392/492/williams.html
Capturing Knowledge for the Future - The Impact of
Contemporary Maori Writing on New Zealand Society:
http://www.lianza.org.nz/conference99/ihimaera.htm
Interview (with Paul Sharrad):
http://www.arts.uwo.ca/~andrewf/anzsc/anzsc8/ihimaera8.htm
"Historiography in Some Recent New Zealand Fiction" by David
Dowling:
http://www.arts.uwo.ca/~andrewf/anzsc/anzsc2/2dowling.htm
Kasaipwalova, John (Papua New Guinea)
On "Betel Nut is Bad Magic for Airplanes":
http://www.loyola.edu/academics/academicaffairs/Newman/documents/ellis.pdf
Publications:
http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/external/psiweb/bibliography/pacificlit2001.htm
Kouka, Hone (Cook Islands/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/kouka.htm
Kulagoe, Celestine (Celo) (Solomon Islands)
Solomon Islands Literature:
http://www.pacificstudies.org/en-gb/dept_44.html
Lei-Lanilau, Carolyn (Hawai'i)
Summary of Ono Ono Girl's Hula:
http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/0168.htm
Reviews of Ono Ono Girl's Hula:
http://www.sfbg.com/lit/reviews/love.html
http://www.kun.nl/cps/22/nb22e.html
Maka'a, Julian (Solomon Islands)
Solomon Islands Literature:
http://www.pacificstudies.org/en-gb/dept_44.html
Jully Makini (Solomon Islands)
Solomon Islands Literature:
http://www.pacificstudies.org/en-gb/dept_44.html
Annotated bibliography of Solomon Islands folklore:
http://members.tripod.com/~THSlone/PNGFB-Solomons.html
Malifa, Sano (Samoa)
Profile:
http://www.freemedia.at/IPIReport2.00/31Sano.htm
Article:
http://www.sidsnet.org/pacific/usp/journ/docs/wansol/7102/7102shining.html
Samoan Literature:
http://www.pacificstudies.org/en-gb/dept_43.html
Manoa, Pio (Fiji)
Metcalfe, Rowan Pahutini (United Kingdom-Aotearoa/New Zealand)
The Tattooed Hand:
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~swamisat/ROWAN/index_r.html
Mishra, Sudesh (Fiji)
"A Beautiful Prospect" (poem):
http://www.newint.org/issue291/prospect.htm
Review, Tandava:
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/36/Rev.html
Mitchell, June (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Murayama, Milton (Hawai'i)
Morris Youngs' article on race and language in Hawai'i:
http://www.ncte.org/pdfs/subscribers-only/ce/0644-mar02/CE0644Standard.pdf
Rob Wilson's "From the Sublime to the Devious: Writing the
Experimental/ Local Pacific":
http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket12/wilson-p-pomod.html
Article on Hawaiian Creole/Pidgin:
http://www.honoluluweekly.com/archives/coverstory%20%202002/11-13-02%20Pidgin/11-13-02%20Pidgin.html
Molisa, Grace Mera (Vanuatu)
Audio Poetry Reading & "Language, Gender, and Human Rights":
http://maven.english.hawaii.edu/celebrate/molisa.htm
Biography & Obituary:
http://www.asiapac.org.fj/discuss/messages/28.html
Profile:
http://www.sria.com.vu/grace_molisa.htm
USP tribute:
http://www.asiapac.org.fj/discuss/messages/27.html
Poems (includes a profile):
http://www.spinifexpress.com.au/fasiapub/vanuatu/vanuatu.htm
Nandan, Satendra (Fiji-Australia)
Brief profile:
http://www.ce.canberra.edu.au/writing/profiles.htm
"Postcolonial Fictions? Other texts, other lives--an
Australian-Fijian experience":
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/36/Nandan.html
Review of The Wounded Sea:
http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/32/Mishra.html
Orotaloa, Rexford (Solomon Islands)
Pillai, Raymond (Fiji)
Books:
http://www.pacificislandbooks.com/fficsongdram.htm
Potiki, Roma (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/potiki.htm
Pule, John (Niue/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/pule.htm
Profile:
http://www.gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/artists/ltom/jpule.asp
Visual arts:
http://www.lopdell.org.nz/online/aic/pule.htm
Rasmussen, Vaine (Cook Islands)
Cook Islands Literature:
http://www.pacificstudies.org/en-gb/dept_32.html
Sinavaiana-Gabbard, Caroline (Samoa)
Alchemies of Distance:
http://maven.english.hawaii.edu/tinfish/books.html
Comments on Mead:
http://www.dispatch.co.za/2000/01/24/features/FOCUS4.HTM
Sipolo, Jully (Solomon Islands)
Solomon Islands Literature:
http://www.pacificstudies.org/en-gb/dept_44.html
Soaba, Russell (Papua New Guinea)
Pacification Rites (poem):
http://www.hawaii.edu/mjournal/text/papuanewguinea90.html
Annotated bibliography of general Papua New Guinean folklore:
http://members.tripod.com/~THSlone/PNGFB-general.html
Sturm, J.C. (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/sturm.htm
Subramani (Fiji)
Review of Dauka Puraan:
http://www.sidsnet.org/pacific/usp/journ/docs/news/wansolnews/wansol0711011.html
Sullivan, Robert (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/sulliv.htm
Profile and online publications:
http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/sullivan/
http://www2.vuw.ac.nz/nzbookcouncil/writers/sullivanrobert.htm
Captain Cook and the Underworld:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/aup/books/sullivan-underworld.html
"From waka to whakapapa, Or: Carving your own canoe.
The verse of Robert Sullivan" by Peter H. Marsden:
http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/sullivan/marsden.ptml
Seeing Voices: New Zealand Poets Reading (Audio CD):
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/aup//books/seeing_voices.html
Star Waka:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/aup/books/sullivan-starwaka.html
"Waka 46" (online audio):
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/aup//books/waka46.mp3
Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/aup/books/whetumoana.html
Taylor, Apirana (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/taylor.htm
Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/teawek.htm
Profile:
http://www2.vuw.ac.nz/nzbookcouncil/writers/teawekotuku.htm
Teaiwa, Teresia (Kiribati/Fiji)
Audio File:
http://maven.english.hawaii.edu/celebrate/teaiwa.htm
Curriculum Vitae:
http://abc.net.au/ra/carvingout/issues/teresia.htm
"Native Information" by joannemariebarker and Teresia
Teaiwa:
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/CultStudies/PUBS/Inscriptions/vol_7/barker.html
An analysis of the current political crisis in Fiji:
http://maorinews.com/karere/fiji/teaiwa.htm
"Fiji's Interim Government Highlights Indigenous Divisions":
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/asiapac/archive/2000/jul/raap-19jul2000-2.htm
"Caribbeanization, Balkanization, Africanization,
Indigenization: Rethinking the Pacific in a Global Context":
http://www.univie.ac.at/esfo-conference/pdf/booklet-CV-Teaiwa-II.pdf
Terenesia: Amplified Poetry and Songs by Teresia
Teaiwa and Sia Figiel:
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/dougwords/terenesia/
Thaman, Konai Helu (Tonga)
Profile:
http://www.sidsnet.org/pacific/usp/sohmain/unesco_chair/
Poem:
http://www.pacificislandbooks.com/thamanpoem.htm
Thomas, Larry (Fiji)
Home page:
http://www.sidsnet.org/pacific/usp/linguist/thomas_l.html
Compassionate Exile (film):
http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/film/3.html
Trask, Haunani-Kay (Hawai'i)
Profile:
http://www.unescocat.org/Haunani.html
Bibliography:
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A465
Article: "Environmental Racism in Hawai'i and the
Pacific Basin":
http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/bartrask.htm
Interview:
http://mypage.direct.ca/e/epang/InterviewHaunani.html
Comments on 9/11:
http://starbulletin.com/2001/10/18/news/story3.html
More on sovereignty:
http://www.cord.edu/faculty/steinwan/hawaiilinks.html
Tuwhare, Hone (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/tuwhare.htm
Va`ai, Makerita (Samoa)
Description of "Pinnacles":
http://www.pacificislandbooks.com/poetry%202.htm#pinnacles
Samoan Literature:
http://www.pacificstudies.org/en-gb/dept_43.html
Vaite, Celestine Hitiura (Tahiti-Australia)
Home page:
http://myshoes.com/CelestineHitiura.html
Profile/Interviews:
http://www.antennamedia.com.au/coastalstyle/viewfinder/mouth.html
http://www.scpromotions.com.au/saec/writers.html
Veramu, Joseph (Fiji)
Profile:
http://abc.net.au/ra/carvingout/issues/veramu.htm
Books:
http://www.pacificislandbooks.com/fficsongdram.htm
Watanabe, Sylvia (Hawai'i)
Audio interviews and readings:
http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/writers/spring01/031601.htm
"Talking to the Dead":
http://www.brunswickschool.org/wicknet/english/bfreeman/Anthology/Talking%20to%20the%20Dead.htm
Michigan Quarterly Review article:
http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/Releases/1996/Apr96/r042496.html
Wendt, Albert (Samoa/New Zealand)
Bibliography:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/wendt.htm
Paul Sharrad's bibliography (and new book):
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/icd/publications/wendt.pdf
The Book of the Black Star:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/aup//books/wendt-blackstar.html
Echos du Commonwealth, special issue on Wendt:
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/ITL/echo_w1.htm
"Return to Exile: Locating Home" by Juniper Ellis:
http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v2i2/ellis.htm
Seeing Voices: New Zealand Poets Reading (Audio CD):
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/aup//books/seeing_voices.html
Whetu Moana: Contemporary
Polynesian Poems in English edited by
Albert Wendt, Robert Sullivan & Reina Whaitiri:
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/aup/books/whetumoana.html
Winduo, Steven Edmund (Papua New Guinea)
Article:
http://www.sidsnet.org/pacific/usp/journ/docs/student/yakai/text/authors.html
Essay: Double Conscience Without the Instrument to
Liberate:
http://www.pngbuai.com/600technology/information/waigani/double-conscience/WS97-sec11-winduo.html
Bibliography (PNG Books):
http://www.pacificislandbooks.com/newguinea.htm
Yamanaka, Lois-Ann (Hawai'i)
Profile articles:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/engl52a/engl52a.1999/yamanaka.html
http://www.asianreporter.com/stories/profiles/08yanareka%20profile.htm
Bibliography and other links:
http://faculty.washington.edu/kendo/yamanaka.html
Interview:
http://www.centralbooking.com/inconversationwith_current.shtml?interview=28
Review of Heads by Harry:
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99feb/hawaii.htm
Zamora Linmark, R. (Hawai'i)
Interview:
http://www.magandamagazine.org/11/rolling1.html
Review of Rolling the R's:
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/CWP/review_3.html
A letter to Claire Danes:
http://likhaan_online.tripod.com/08242001archivesite/literary2-2.html
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