Table of Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Foreword: Making and Unmaking the Anglo-American Pacific

ROB WILSON

Introduction

MICHELLE KEOWN, ANDREW TAYLOR AND MANDY TREAGUS

PART I

Military, Religious and Cultural Imperialism in Pacific Literature

1 War and Redemption: Militarism, Religion and Anticolonialism in Pacific Literature

MICHELLE KEOWN

2 Reading Imperialism in the Pacific: The Prose of Joseph Veramu and the Poetry of Sia Figiel

TERESIA TEAIWA

3 Slow Walking, Fast Talking: PI Poetry and Imperialisms

SELINA TUSITALA MARSH

PART II

Transatlantic Trajectories in Pacific film, photography and the visual arts

4 It’s Raining in Pago: The Body, Religion and Race in W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘Rain’ and its Film Adaptations

MANDY TREAGUS

5 The Voyager’s Sublime: Kodachrome and Pacific Tourism

JEFFREY GEIGER

6 Culture and Imperialism: John Pule’s Painting, 1990-2010

NICHOLAS THOMAS

PART III

Cross-cultural Alliances and Tensions in Pacific Discourse

7 Lunchtime at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Notes on Working Friendships among Natives and Non-Natives and Imperial Anglo-Americanism in Territorial Hawai‘i (1900-1959)

PAUL LYONS

8 Cowboys and Coconuts: Robert Dean Frisbie in the Colonial Pacific

PAUL SHARRAD

9 Annexation and the Environment: Writing, Reading, Reanimating ‘Āina

SUSAN NAJITA

Afterword: In Memoriam Teresia Teaiwa (1968-2017)

MICHELLE KEOWN AND MANDY TREAGUS

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

About the Author

Michelle Keown is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Andrew Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Mandy Treagus is Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, Australia.