In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. This book itself is an ecological form with rhizomatic roots and blossoming branches. Within these pages, the reader will encounter a wild garden of genres, including poetry, chant, short fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, visual texts, and even a dramatic play--all written in multilingual offerings of English, Pacific languages, pidgin, and translation. Seven main themes emerge: "Creation Stories and Genealogies," "Ocean and Waterscapes," "Land and Islands," "Flowers, Plants, and Trees," "Animals and More-than-Human Species," "Climate Change," and "Environmental Justice." This aesthetic diversity embodies the beautiful bio-diversity of the Pacific itself.

The urgent voices in this book call us to attention--to action!--at a time of great need. Pacific ecologies and the lives of Pacific Islanders are currently under existential threat due to the legacy of environmental imperialism and the ongoing impacts of climate change. While Pacific writers celebrate the beauty and cultural symbolism of the ocean, islands, trees, and flowers, they also bravely address the frightening realities of rising sea levels, animal extinction, nuclear radiation, military contamination, and pandemics.

Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures reminds us that we are not alone; we are always in relation and always ecological. Humans, other species, and nature are interrelated; land and water are central concepts of identity and genealogy; and Earth is the sacred source of all life, and thus should be treated with love and care. With this book as a trusted companion, we are inspired and empowered to reconnect with the world as we navigate towards a precarious yet hopeful future.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	424
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	University of Hawaii Press
Fecha de Publicación	2022-08-31
Dimensiones	8.9" x 5.9" x 1.2" pulgadas
Serie	New Oceania Literary
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	Oceanía

Yamashiro, Aiko

Aiko Yamashiro is executive director of Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities.

Wendt, Albert

ʻO le atamai o aliʻi, le Susuga Maualaʻivao Albert Wendt ʻo se tusitala lāuiloa i le Pasefika ma ʻo se polofesa ʻua lītaea mai le Iunivesitē o 'Aukilani, Niu Sila.

Maualaivao Albert Wendt is the Pacific's most renowned writer. He is an emeritus professor at Auckland University.

Trask, Haunani

Kay: - Haunani-Kay Trask, activist, author, and poet, is professor of Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i.

Teaiwa, Teresia Kieuea

Associate Professor Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa (1968-2017) was an influential scholar, teacher, activist and poet, and director of Pacific Studies and Samoan Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Teaiwa, Katerina

Katerina Teaiwa is associate professor and deputy director Higher Degree Research in the School of Culture, History, and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, at the Australian National University.

McMullin, Dan Taulapapa

Dan Taulapapa McMullin is an artist and poet from Sāmoa Amelika (American Samoa). His book of poems Coconut Milk (University of Arizona Press, 2013) was on the American Library Association Rainbow List Top Ten Books of the Year.

Taulapapa's artwork has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum, De Young Museum, Oakland Museum, Bishop Museum, NYU's /A/P/A Gallery, and the United Nations. His performance poem The Bat and other early works received a 1997 Poets&Writers Award from The Writers Loft. His film Sinalela won the 2002 Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival Best Short Film Award.

His film 100 Tikis is an art appropriation video at the intersection of tiki kitsch and indigenous sovereignty, and was the opening night film selection of the 2016 Présence Autochtone First Peoples Festival in Montreal; and was an Official Selection in the Fifo Tahiti International Oceania Documentary Film Festival and at Pacifique Festival in Rochefort, France. His art studio and writing practice is based in Hudson, New York, where he lives with his partner Stephen. Taulapapa is currently working on a novel. His work can be viewed at www.taulapapa.com.

Kihleng, Emelihter

Emelihter Kihleng is a poet and author. She has held academic and other professional positions in Pohnpei, Guam, Hawai'i, and New Zealand, and is a curatorial research fellow at the MARKK, Museum am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, Germany.

Kalahele, Imaikalani

This volume features the work of esteemed Native Hawaiian artist Imaikalani Kalahele, a scholar and practitioner of Hawaiian culture who lives and works in his mountain studio in upper Kalihi Valley.

Hau'ofa, Epeli

Epeli Hau'ofa (1939-2009) was born in Papua New Guinea and educated in Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Fiji, Australia, and Canada. He worked at the University of the South Pacific's main campus in Suva, Fiji, where he was the founder and director of the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture, established in 1997.

Hall, Dana Naone

Dana Naone Hall continues to advocate for the protection of coastal resources and shoreline access, as well as the preservation of historic and cultural sites. She lives in Ha'ikū, Maui.

Grace, Patricia

Patricia Grace is the first Maori woman to publish a collection of short stories (1975). Since then she has published three other short story collections, three award-winning novels, and several children's books. Her novel Dogside Story (UH Press edition, 2002) won the 2001 Kiriyama Prize for fiction. She is widely anthologized and translated into more than eight languages, and is considered not only one of the finest writers in New Zealand and the Pacific, but one of the most important writers of the post-colonial novel in English in the world today.

Goodyear

Ka'ōpua, Noelani: - Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua is professor of political science at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

Flores, Evelyn

Evelyn Flores is associate professor of literature at the University of Guam focusing on post/counter-colonial studies, Native and women's studies, and Pacific Island literatures.

Figiel, Sia

ʻO Sia Figiel ʻo se fatu solo ma se tusitala na tūsia le where we once belonged. ʻO lana uluaʻi tusi faʻaliliu lenei i le Gagana Sāmoa.

Sia Figiel is a poet and writer of the novel where we once belonged. This is her first work of translation into Samoan.

Case, Emalani

Emalani Case is a Kanaka Maoli lecturer in Pacific studies at Te Herenga Waka--Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Perez, Craig Santos

Craig Santos Perez is a Chamoru author and editor from Guam. He is a professor in the English Department at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

Kava, Leora

Leora (Lee) Kava is assistant professor of critical Pacific Islands and Oceania studies at San Francisco State University.

Jetñil

Kijiner, Kathy: - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner is Climate Envoy for the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the director of Jo-Jikum, an environmental nonprofit.