Pacific Literature Resources

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.

The comprehensive Pacific Island Internet Resources site, put together by Michael Ogden, has a great list of links to bookshops, media, dictionaries, archives etc.
The Pacific Forum's Pacific Island Web Directory is the gateway to hundreds of Pacific-related websites.
The Cafe Pacific -- takes a while to load but has lots of links.
Information about the libraries of the University of the South Pacific.
The Brigham Young University Library has a very thorough and easy to use list of online Pacific archives and university resources.

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.

The Pacific Studies Initiative Syllabus and Bibliography Collection Online is an absolutely phenomenal collection of course outlines and reading lists.
If, like me, you're trying to figure out what "Asia-Pacific" means apart from Washington-Tokyo, here's a detailed course outline on the subject, from the University of Hawai'i.
Reading lists from several semesters of Cornell University's Pacific Reading Group.
Keep an eye on Loyola College's postcolonial studies website, which promises lots of Pacific literature references.

Books Pasifika, in Aotearoa/New Zealand, publish and distribute a variety of Pacific-related books.
The University of Hawai'i Press. Browse their catalogue here.
AWL Australia publish Pacific and Melanesian texts.

New Zealand writer Bill Manhire's interactive choose-your-own-adventure satire, The Brain of Katherine Mansfield has been hypertexted, with full permission, by Jolisa Gracewood and Richard Easther. Come and lose yourself in a virtual version of Te Wai Pounamu!
Read Mark Twain's story, The Great Revolution in Pitcairn.
The entire texts of Herman Melville's Typee (553K) and Moby-Dick (1.2MB) are now on the web, as part of Project Gutenberg. A trifle unwieldy, but very useful for word-searching.
W. Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence (426K) is also available in text form, as is Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

Check out one possible future of Asia-Pacific studies at Moving Cultures: Remaking Asia-Pacific Studies, a research and instructional project based at the University of Hawai'i and funded by the Ford Foundation.
The Asia-Pacific Review is a new journal that looks at the area from a Japanese perspective.