The following bibliographies were created by the Pacific Reading Group at Cornell University. The reading group, for students keen to engage with contemporary and historical literature from and about the Pacific Islands, was inaugurated by English department PhD student Michelle Elleray, and met twice-monthly under the serene supervision of Prof. Laura Brown. Feel free to consult and use these reading lists for your own Pacific-related purposes.

Spring 1996 -- Contact, Contract, Sovereignty

Fall 1996 -- Pacific Islands: Hawai'i and Aotearoa New Zealand

Spring 1997 -- Writing the Pacific: Colonialism, Anthropology & Literature

Fall 1999 -- Situating Asian/Pacific Literature

Spring 2000 -- Screening the Pacific

 Spring 1996 -- Contact, Contract, Sovereignty

Explorers

• The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific As Told By Selections of his Own Journals 1768-1779. Ed. A Grenfell Price. Ill. Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Introd. Percy G. Adams. NY: Dover Publications, 1971.
• Robert Levy. "Did Captain Cook Have It Coming?" Review of Gananath Obeyesekere's The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1992). New York Times Book Review, 20 September 1992, 30.
• Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sebastien-Cesar. An account in two volumes of two voyages to the South Seas by Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Jules S-C Dumont d'Urville of the French Navy to Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, 1826-1829 in the corvette Astrolabe and to the Straits of Magellan, Chile, Oceania, South East Asia, Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand, and Torres Strait, 1837-1840 in the corvettes Astrolabe and Zelee. Trans. and ed. by Helen Rosenman. Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawaii Press, 1988.

William Hodges

• Harriet Guest. "The Great Distinction: Figures of the Exotic in the Work of William Hodges." The Oxford Art Journal. 12:2, 1989, 36-58.

Tattooing

• Harriet Guest. "Curiously Marked: Tattooing, Masculinity, and Nationality in Eighteenth-Century British Perceptions of the South Pacific." Painting and the Politics of Culture: New Essays on British Art 1700-1850. Ed. John Burrell. Oxford: OUP, 1992. 101-134.
• Major-General Robley. Moko: Or Maori tattooing. With 180 Illustrations from Drawings by the Author and from Photographs. Southern Reprints, 1987.
• John Batchelor. The Ainu and their Folklore. London: Religious Tract Society, 1901. [Ch 3, Tattooing]
• George Montadon. La Civilisation Anou et les Cultures Arctiques. Paris: Payot, 1937. [excerpt on tattoos]

William Colenso

• William Colenso. Fifty Years Ago in New Zealand: A Commemoration: A Jubilee Paper: A Retrospect: A Plain and True Story. Napier: R.C. Harding, 1888. [excerpts]

Cannibalism

• Ron & Marjorie Crocombe. The Works of Ta'unga: records of a Polynesian traveller in the South Seas, 1833-1896. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1968. [excerpt only]
• Bill Manhire. "Cannibals." South Pacific. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1994.
• Gananath Obeyesekere. "'British Cannibals': Contemplation of an Event in the Death and Resurrection of James Cook, Explorer." Critical Inquiry 18, Summer 1992, 630-654.
• Marshall Sahlins. "Raw Women, Cooked Men, and Other 'Great Things' of the Fiji Islands." The Ethnography of Cannibalism. Eds. Paula Brown & Donald Tuzin. Washington, D.C. : Society for Psychological Anthropology, 1983.

Epeli Hau'ofa

• Epeli Hau'ofa. "The Writer as Outsider." New Literatures Review (U. Wollongong), Pacific Issue, No. 20, Winter South, 1990, 41-52.
• Epeli Hau'ofa. Kisses in the Nederends. Honolulu: U Hawai'i Press, 1987.
• Epeli Hau'ofa. Tales of the Tikongs. Suva: Bleake House, 1983.
• Epeli Hau'ofa, Vijay Naidu & Eric Waddell, eds. A New Oceania: Rediscovering Our Sea of Islands. Suva: School of Social and Economic Development, U South Pacific, 1993.
• Teresia K. Teaiwa. Review of Waddell & Hau'ofa's A New Oceania. The Contemporary Pacific, 1996, 214-217.
• J. S. Ryan. "Epeli Hau'ofa's Polynesian Human Comedy." New Literatures Review (U. Wollongong), Pacific Issue, No. 20, Winter South, 1990, 32-40.

Tonga and Sovereignty

• Epeli Hau'ofa. "Thy Kingdom Come: The Democratization of Aristocratic Tonga." The Contemporary Pacific, 6:2, Fall 1994, 414-428.
• Rodney C. Hills. "The 1990 Election in Tonga." The Contemporary Pacific, 3:2, Fall 1991, 357-378.
• Roger C. Thompson. The Pacific Basin since 1945: A History of the Foreign Relations of the Asian, Australasian and American Rim States and the Pacific Islands. London: Longman, 1994. [excerpt]

Literature by Tangata Whenua (Aotearoa/New Zealand)

• Witi Ihimaera. Te Ao Marama, contemporary Maori writing. Vol. 1. He whakaatanga o te ao, reflections of reality. Auckland, N.Z.:ÊReed Books, 1993.
• Penny van Toorn. "Discourse/ Patron Discourse: How Minority Texts Command the Attention of Majority Audiences." SPAN 30, April 1990.
• "Alan Duff: The Book, the Film, The Interview." Meanjin, 54:1, 1995.
• Carroll du Chateau. "Aggro Culture." Alan Duff interview. Quote Unquote (Auckland, NZ), May 1994.
• Alan Duff. Once Were Warriors. Random House/ Vintage, 1995 (1990).
• Andrew Peek. "An Interview with Keri Hulme." New Literatures Review (U. Wollongong), Pacific Issue, No. 20, Winter South, 1990, 1-11.
• Cathe Giffuni. "Witi Ihimaera: A Bibliography." New Literatures Review (U. Wollongong), Pacific Issue, No. 20, Winter South, 1990, 53-63.

Albert Wendt & Pacific Writing

• Albert Wendt. Introduction to Lali: A Pacific Anthology. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1980.
• Albert Wendt. Intro to Nuanua: Pacific Writing in English since 1980. Honolulu: U Hawai'i Press, 1995.
• Rodney Morales. The Speed of Darkness. Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1988.
• Rodney Morales, ed. Ha'i Ho'i Hou: A Tribute to George Helm and Kimo Mitchell. Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1984. [about Kahoolawe]
• Reviews of Harrison Bray, Tomasi: Far Islands Far Away; Milton Murayama, All I Asking for is my Body; Ian Wedde, Symmes Hole; Subramani, The Fantasy Eaters. New Literatures Review (U. Wollongong), Pacific Issue, No. 20, Winter South, 1990.
• Ken Goodwin. "A History of Ignorance." On Ihimaera, Wendt, and Russell Soaba. New Literatures Review (U. Wollongong), Pacific Issue, No. 20, Winter South, 1990, 19-31.

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Gifts and Exchange

• Marcel Mauss. The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies. London: Routledge, 1990.
• Jacques Derrida. Given time. I, Counterfeit money. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994 (1992). [trans. of Donner le temps; Paris: Galilee, 1991].

Hawai'i: Holt, Hula, Pidgin

• Elizabeth Buck. Paradise Remade: The Politics of Culture and History in Hawai'i. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.
• John Dominis Holt. Waimea Summer. Honolulu: Topgallant Publishing Co., 1986.
• John Charlot. The Hawaiian Poetry of Religion and Politics: Some Religio-Political Concepts in Postcontact Literature. Institute for Polynesian Studies/ Polynesian Cultural Center, Brigham Young University - Hawai'i Campus, 1985. [excerpt]
• Noel J. Kent. Hawaii: Islands Under the Influence. NY: Monthly Review Press, 1983. [Ch 11, A Tourism Society]
• James Grant Benton. "Twelf Night o Wateva!" Kumu Kahua plays. Ed. Dennis Carroll. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1983. [pidgin version of Twelfth Night].

Asia and Aotearoa/ New Zealand: POWs, Settlers, Travellers

• Vincent O' Sullivan. Shuriken. Wellington: Victoria UP, 1985.
• Robin Hyde. Dragon Rampant. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1939.
• Manying Ip. Home Away from Home: life stories of Chinese women in New Zealand. Auckland: New Women's Press, 1990. Also Dragons on the long white cloud: the making of Chinese New Zealanders. New Zealand: Tandem Press, 1996.

Indigeneity and late 20th C Maori Art

Material from and about 1992 "Headlands" Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; also material about Dick Frizzell.

Pakeha Settler Identity

• Michele D. Dominy. "New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal: Cultural Politics of an Anthropology of the High Country." Anthropology Today. 6:2, April 1990, 11-15.
• NZASA et al. "Cultural Politics in New Zealand" [responses to the above article]. Anthropology Today. 6:3, June 1990, 3-9.
• Michele D. Dominy. "Cultural Politics in New Zealand" [response to the responses]. Anthropology Today. 6:4, August 1990, 23.
• Michele D. Dominy. "White Settler Assertions of Native Status." American Ethnologist. 22:2, 1995, 358-374.
• Paul Spoonley. "Pakeha Ethnicity: A Response to Maori Sovereignty." Nga Take: Ethnic Relations and Racism in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Spoonley, David Pearson, Cluny Macpherson, eds. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1991. 154-170.
• Carroll Wall. "Te Pakeha: The Search for White Identity." Metro. November 1986, 34-48.
• Frank Sargeson. "That Summer." The Stories of Frank Sargeson. Auckland: Penguin Book, 1982.
• Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand stories. "Prelude" and "At the Bay."
• Witi Ihimaera. Dear Miss Mansfield: a tribute to Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp. Auckland, N.Z. ; New York: Viking, 1989.
• Alan Riach. "James K. Baxter and the Dialect of the Tribe." New Literatures Review (U. Wollongong), Pacific Issue, No. 20, Winter South, 1990, 12-18.
• Mark Williams and Michele Leggott, eds. Opening the Book: New Essays on New Zealand Writing. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995.

Films

• My Crasy Life (95 min). Samoan gangs in LA.
• First Contact (54 min). Bob Connolly, 1983. Papua New Guinea.
• Joe Leahy's Neighbours (90 min). Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson, 1988.
• Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (78 min). Robert Flaherty and FW Murnau, 1931.
• Desperate Remedies (90 min?). Peter Wells and Stewart Main, 1993.

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 Spring 1997 -- Writing the Pacific: Colonialism, Anthropology & Literature

South Pacific Tales of Sails, Whales and Males

• Herman Melville. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. Introd. John Bryant. NY: Penguin Classics, 1996 (1846).
• Robert Louis Stevenson. South Sea Tales. Ed. & Introd. Roslyn Jolly. Oxford/ NY: OUP, 1996.
• James Michener. Tales of the South Pacific. NY: Ballantine/ Fawcett Crest, 1974 (1946).

Fiji: Race, Nation, Family

• Stephanie Johnson. The Heart's Wild Surf. Auckland: Random House NZ Vintage, 1996.
• Satendra Nandan. The Wounded Sea. Simon & Schuster Australia, 1991.

Coming of Age in Samoa: Anthropology & Its Discontents

• Margaret Mead. Coming of Age in Samoa. NY: Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1961 (1928).
• Derek Freeman. Margaret Mead and the Heretic: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. Penguin Books, 1996 (1983).
• Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia Teaiwa. The Last Virgin in Paradise. Mana Publications, 1993.
• Sia Figiel. Where We Once Belonged. Auckland: Pasifika Press, 1996.

Theorising Contemporary Colonialisms

• Nicholas Thomas. Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government. Princeton NJ: Princeton UP, 1994.
• Terry Goldie. Fear and Temptation: The Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Literatures. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 1993.
• Paul Sharrad. "Adventures in a Literary Jungle." Review of A Cannibal in Manhattan, Tama Janowitz (London: Pan/ Picador, 1988). New Literatures Review (U. Wollongong), Pacific Issue, No. 20, Winter South, 1990, 64-66.

Pacific Beat: Time for Music

• Tapes of Mai FM; Herbs; the Muttonbirds; Moana & the Moahunters; Upper Hutt Posse; Sisters Underground.
• Readings from Paul Gilroy on Black Music & the Politics of Authenticity; also John Dix, Stranded in Paradise : New Zealand Rock'n'Roll 1955-1988. Wellington, N.Z.:Paradise Publications, 1988.

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 Fall 1999 -- Situating Asian/Pacific Literature

• Epeli Hau'ofa. "The Ocean in Us." Dreadlocks in Oceania 1 (1997). 124-148.

• Arif Dirlik, ed. What's in a Rim?: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1993.

• Arif Dirlik & Rob Wilson, eds. Introduction. Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production,eds. Rob Wilson and Arif Dirlik. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1995.1-16.

• Rob Wilson & Wimal Dissanayake, eds. "Introduction: Tracking the Global/Local." Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996. 1-18.

• Milton Murayama. All I Asking For Is My Body.1975. University of Hawai'i Press, 1988.

• Epeli Hau'ofa. Tales of the Tikongs. 1983. Suva: Beake House, 1993.

• Lois-Ann Yamanaka. Blu's Hanging. NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux/ Avon, 1997.

• Albert Wendt. Pouliuli. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1977.

• Kiana Davenport. Song of the Exile. NY: Random/Ballantine, 1999.

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• Moana of the South Seas. Dir. Robert Flaherty. Perf. Fa'amgase, Pe'a, T'ugaita, Ta'avale. Paramount Pictures, 1926.

• Tabu. Dir. F.W.Murnau. Written by Robert Flaherty & F.W. Murnau. Perf. Matahi, Hitu, Anne Chevalier. Paramount Pictures, 1931.

• Mutiny on the Bounty. Dir. Frank Lloyd. Written by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall. Perf. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone. MGM,1935.

• South Pacific. Dir. Josh Logan. Perf. Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, France Nuyen, Ray Walton, Juanita Hall. Magna, 20th C Fox,1958.

• Blue Hawai'i. Dir. Norman Taurog. Perf. Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury. Paramount,1961.

• Sons for the Return Home. Dir. Paul Maunder. Perf. Uelese Petaia, Fiona Lindsay. Based on the novel by Albert Wendt. New Zealand Film Commission,1979.

• Paradise Bent: Boys Will Be Girls in Samoa. Dir. Heather Croall. Re Angle Pictures, 1999.

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