TCP [The Contemporary Pacific], 2012 - Volume 24, Number 2
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Item type: Item , Review of Villagers and the City: Melanesian Experiences of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, edited by Michael Goddard(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Jones, PaulItem type: Item , Review of The Lihir Destiny: Cultural Responses to Mining in Melanesia, by Nicholas A Bainton(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Golub, AlexItem type: Item , Review of Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, by Michael Goddard(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Andersen, BarbaraItem type: Item , Review of Reconciliation and Architectures of Commitment: Sequencing Peace in Bougainville, by John Braithwaite, Hilary Charlesworth, Peter Reddy, and Leah Dunn(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Schneider, KatharinaItem type: Item , Review of Natives and Exotics: World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific, by Judith A Bennett(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) D'Arcy, PaulItem type: Item , Review of Steadfast Movement around Micronesia: Satowan Enlargements beyond Migration, by Lola Quan Bautista(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Rauchholz, ManuelItem type: Item , Item type: Item , Review of Pacific Island Artists: Navigating the Global Art World, edited by Karen Stevenson(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Higgins, KatherineItem type: Item , Review of The Orator/O Le Tulafale [feature film](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Henderson, April K.; Kihleng, Emelihter; Teaiwa, Teresia K.; Muaiava, Sadat; Suaalii-Sauni, Tamasailau; McFarland-Tautau, Myra; Hunkin, Galumalemana AfeletiItem type: Item , Vanuatu in Review: Issues and Events, 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Van Trease, HowardItem type: Item , Solomon Islands in Review: Issues and Events, 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Nanau, Gordon LeuaItem type: Item , Papua in Review: Issues and Events, 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Widjojo, Muridan S.Item type: Item , New Caledonia in Review: Issues and Events, 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Chappell, DavidItem type: Item , Fiji in Review: Issues and Events, 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Fraenkel, JonItem type: Item , Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Chappell, David; Fraenkel, Jon; Nanau, Gordon Leua; Van Trease, Howard; Widjojo, Muridan S.Item type: Item , The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Maclellan, NicItem type: Item , Virtually There: Open Access and the Online Growth of Pacific Dissertations and Theses(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Dawrs, StuartItem type: Item , Sniffing Oceania’s Behind(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Diaz, Vicente M.Part tribute to the late Epeli Hau‘ofa and part reflective historiography, this essay examines the figure of the anus in Hau‘ofa’s short story Kisses in the Nederends in order to open up an inquiry into an olfactory history of Oceania. My broader goal is to augment if not challenge canonical methods still heavily reliant on literacy and visuality, and realist modalities that I believe are inadequate to the task of apprehending subaltern aspects of Oceania’s ongoing past.Item type: Item , The Trauma of Goodness in Patricia Grace’s Fiction(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Visser, IrenePostcolonial literary critics today increasingly draw on cultural trauma theory to illuminate processes concerning the traumatic aftermath of colonization. There is also, however, a growing resistance to some of cultural trauma theory’s central concepts and its basic orientation, which are often deemed inadequate for the interpretation of postcolonial literatures. This article aims to contribute to this discussion as well as to contribute to a critical understanding of Patricia Grace’s fiction—or more precisely, of the aftermath of colonial repression that is represented in her novels of the 1980s and 1990s as an invidious and in fact traumatic “goodness.” The fictional dramatization of the trauma of “goodness” in the settings of school, orphanage, and hospital foregrounds a paradox that is central to Grace’s depiction of the lives of Māori children in the second half of the twentieth century, when the colonial contradictions between education and repression, care and wounding were still making themselves felt. Grace’s emphasis is on the long-lasting psychological imprint of colonial repression in primary schools, as institutes of care and instruction, where the concept of goodness is contaminated to the extent that it becomes indistinguishable from evil. In exploring this traumatic “goodness” as a colonizing concept in Grace’s fiction, this article reflects on the expository potential of trauma theory and on its limitations for postcolonial critical praxis.Item type: Item , Postcolonial Anxieties and the Browning of New Zealand Rugby(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Grainger, Andrew D.; Falcous, Mark; Newman, Joshua I.This article examines postcolonial race politics and the re-centering of embodied whiteness and mediated white bodies as constituted through “white flight” and the so-called browning of rugby in New Zealand. Previous studies have problematized the ways in which rugby union is often framed within the national imaginary as a culturally unifying space—commonly depicted as transcendent of New Zealand’s postcolonial racial tensions. Here we extend these critiques by pointing to several themes that have recently emerged within popular sports media, namely, those that position male Māori and Pacific Islander bodies as a threat to the well-being of the national game and the national identities it authorizes, and those that locate the Pākehā (white) male sporting body as under duress, or made vulnerable, by the brown-bodied, interloping “Other.” The article concludes with a discussion of how these popular representations of racialized rugby-playing bodies, in the age of global mobility and national multiculturalism, articulate to and within foundational (white) national myths of white-settler meritocracy, rurality, and coloniality.