Oceanic Literatures and Cultures II
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Violence and South Pacific Literature. Esra Uzun, East Carolina University
This paper focuses on how violence is depicted in South Pacific Literature and how it functions, by exploring the ideas suggested in Keri Hulme’s The Bone People and Alan Duff’s Once Were Warriors.
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Navigating Between Races: Mixed-race Literature’s Concern with Racial Spaces. Aimee Ilac, University of Hawai'i, West O'ahu
In a compilation by editors Marie Hara and Nora Okja Keller, Intersecting Circles: The Voices of Hapa Women in Poetry and Prose, mixed-race characters navigate between different racial spaces. Readers of these and other mixed-race works are encouraged to rethink traditional assumptions of race and ethnicity.
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Creative Media Education in Hawaii: Nurturing a New Wave of Pacific Media. George Chun Han Wang, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
As Hawai‘i's first baccalaureate film program, the Academy for Creative Media aims to nurture a new wave of Pacific media. Emphasizing strong narrative approach while offering indigenous initiatives, ACM has produced noteworthy films that reflect stories, traditions and cultural values of Hawai‘i.
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