Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction
by
Susan Y. Najita
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence. In particular, she examines...