Pacific Literature Resources

Here are some useful links to material about Pacific literature. This page was constructed for the Pacific Reading Group at Cornell University. It's not an exhaustive list of what's out there -- but it's a start. Enjoy the links. Feedback welcome.
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Span is the journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.
- A review of Sia Figiel's Where We Once Belonged (1997).
- Information about the wonderful Grace Mera Molisa, poet and publisher from Vanuatu.
- Vijay Mishra's essay on Indo-Fijian writer Satendra Nandan's novel The Wounded Sea.
- The 1984 special issue of Echos du Commonwealth, devoted to Albert Wendt, is now online.
- An Albert Wendt bibliography from Auckland University.
- Alexander Mart's entire MA thesis about Albert Wendt is readable online (it's 202K long, with a helpful bibliography). His PhD project has some Pacific content and looks pretty cool too.
- Read about Rowan Pahutini Metcalfe and her forthcoming novel The Tattooed Hand.
- A brief list of Cook Islands fiction.
- Zoetropes, the online home of New Zealand literature.
©Jolisa Gracewood 1999