Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures / / ed. by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, Craig Santos Perez, Craig Santos Perez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: (David Teva Chan), Tevachan,; (Travis Kaululaʻau Thompson), TravisT,; Anderson, Jean,; Aurima Devatine, Flora,; Ava Taesali, Penina,; Avia, Tusiata,; Balaz, Joe,; Barcinas, Lia Maria,; Barford, Serie,; Borja-Quichocho-Calvo, Kisha,; Brotherson, Moetai,; Brown-Pereira, Audrey,; Carpenter, Jessica,; Case, Emalani,; Colleps, Donovan Kūhiō,; Cruz-Smith, J. A. Dela,; Cruz-Smith, J.A. Dela,; Devatine, Flora Aurima,; Donaldson, Kamele,; Figiel, Sia,; Flores, Evelyn,; Genin-Juni, Waej,; Giyai, Aleks,; Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, Noelani,; Gorodé, Déwé,; Grace, Patricia,; Hau‘ofa, Epeli,; Helu Thaman, Konai,; Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Jamaica,; Hereniko, Vilsoni,; Ihimaera, Witi,; Ingram, Takiora,; Iwashita-Taylor, Grace,; Jetnil-Kijiner, Kathy,; Jetñil-Kijiner, Kathy,; Joab, Yolanda,; Kahakauwila, Kristiana,; Kalahele, Imaikalani,; Kamali, Daren,; Kasaipwalova, John,; Kaumualii Westlake, Wayne,; Kava, Leora,; Kieuea Teaiwa, Teresia,; Kihleng, Emelihter,; Koya Vaka’uta, Frances C.,; Kūhiō Colleps, Donovan,; Leon Guerrero, Victoria-Lola M.,; MacKenzie, D. Keali‘i,; Makereti, Tina,; Mendiola, Clarissa,; Mera Molisa, Grace,; Mila, Karlo,; Morales, Serena,; Morei, Cita N.,; Naone Hall, Dana,; Neirok Leem, Selina,; Newson, Sarita,; Ngaio Simmons, Serena,; Niumeitolu, Fuifuilupe,; Niumeitolu, Loa,; Nu‘utupu Giles, William,; Nālani McDougall, Brandy,; Onedera, Peter R.,; Osorio, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani,; Pascua, Jay,; Perez Hattori, Mary Therese,; Perez-Wendt, Mahealani,; Piahana-Wong, Kiri,; Poole, Doug,; Puhiatau Pule, John,; Pule, John Puhiatau,; Puleloa, Michael,; Qolouvaki, Tagi,; Ramarui, Hermana,; Revilla, No‘u,; Salas, Shaylin Nicole,; San Agustin Naholowa‘a, Leiana,; Santos Perez, Craig,; Siagatonu, Terisa,; Simmons, Serena Ngaio,; Sina Meredith, Courtney,; Sipeli, Peter,; Spitz, Chantal T.,; Storie, Monique,; Sullivan, Robert,; Taesali, Penina Ava,; Tafilagi-Takala, Virginie H.,; Taimanglo Ventura, Desiree,; Taitano Lowe, Arielle,; Taitano, Lehua M.,; Tamu, Leilani,; Taulapapa McMullin, Dan,; Teaero, Teweiariki,; Teaiwa, Katerina,; Teaiwa, Teresia Kieuea,; Thaman, Konai Helu,; Tito Gapelu, Ryan,; Trask, Haunani-Kay,; Tusitala Marsh, Selina,; Tuwhare, Hone,; Ventura, Desiree Taimanglo,; Waromi, John,; Wasasala, Jahra,; Wendt, Albert,; Williams, Danielle P.,; Winduo, Steven Edmund,; Wood, Briar,; Yamashiro, Aiko,; Zackhras, Carlon,; portillo, leilani,
• HerausgeberIn: Jetñil-Kijiner, Kathy,; Kava, Leora,; Perez, Craig Santos,
• TeilnehmendeR: Vaka'uta, Frances C. Koya,.
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The New Oceania Literary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 3 b&w illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Map of the Pacific Islands -- Editors’ Introduction -- Creation Stories and Genealogies -- Introduction -- Maps to the Ancestors -- Ikurangi -- At the Centre of Everything -- Black Stone -- Grace Mera Molisa -- Our stories are within us -- Inside Us the Dead -- Beginning -- Offspring of Oceania -- Notous and Falcons -- Gata (with a mechanical jaw) -- Shore Song -- Tåno I Man Tao -- Matariki -- Ars Pasifika -- Masu -- Tooth of the Moon -- Déwé Gorodé -- Into Our Light I Will Go Forever -- Ocean and Waterscapes -- Introduction -- Ocean Birth -- Prelude to Lagimalie -- Rivers in the Sea -- star language -- Na Wai Eā, The Freed Waters -- Mahealani Perez-Wendt -- Clouds and Water -- Children of the Shoreline -- Atlas -- Ocean Pictures -- To Hånum-Måmi, i Nanå-ta -- anatomy of a storm -- Great World -- From “The Ocean in Us” -- Kantan Tåsi (Song of the Sea) -- Land and Islands -- Introduction -- To Island -- GAFA -- Migration Story -- fa’ñague / fuh-nyah-ghee/ -- Guam’s Place Names Continue to Be Challenged -- makua smiles back -- Absorb the maunga -- Wistful Thinking -- Wao / Vao -- Throughout the Islands -- And. now. -- LET THE MOUNTAIN SPEAK -- From The Missing King -- I-Land-Ness -- From “The Summer Island” -- Papa-tu-a-nuku (Earth Mother) -- Mother’s Chemo Cycles -- Flowers, Plants, and Trees -- Introduction -- And so it is -- Family Trees -- Friend -- In truth, I have gathered you all from the same garden -- LANGAKALI -- Native Species -- Blood in the Kava Bowl -- DER TRAUM -- Lele Nā ‘Uhane o Nā ‘Ohi‘a -- lei-making -- tala -- What the bush really wanted -- Trongkon Nunu -- Gathered by Plants: Some Decolonial Love Letters -- Star Pines -- To Hear the Mornings -- Make Rope -- Animals and More-than-Human Species -- Introduction -- Taonga -- Chasing the Sun’s Rays -- Kuita and the Flame -- Kāne Kōlea -- Fish & Crab -- Fish Tickling -- Fish Girl -- Excerpt from Anggadi Tupa: Harvesting the Storm -- “Pues adios, Paluma! Esta agupa’!” -- Red and Yellow -- Fanihi -- Olik -- DA LAST SQUID -- Hawaiians Eat Fish -- Wayne Kaumualii Westlake -- Kāhea Before the Approach of Makahiki -- My Jesus Is a Monk Seal -- Climate Change -- Introduction -- More than Just a Blue Passport -- Puka-Puka—Taui‘anga reva, climate change -- Chief Telematua’s Speech to the United Nations -- Jacinda Adern goes to the Pacific Forum in Tuvalu and my family colonises her house -- Nice Voice -- c entangled letters of the alphabet washing the ocean a mix -- Surely uncertain -- Homes of Micronesia -- Pacific Islanders March for Self-Determination -- The letter of the day -- The Word of the Day -- Moa Space Foa Ramble -- Water Remembers -- Ewi am lomnak -- Tāwhaki -- Unity -- Dear Matafele Peinam -- Environmental Justice -- Introduction -- The Broken Gourd -- Meramu Nafkah Meratapi Lahan -- From Potiki -- A Letter to My Brother -- Looking for Signs -- HANUABADA -- bilum, for rosa -- Air Conditioned Minds: The Problem of Climate Control in Guåhan -- On Being Indigenous in a Global Pandemic -- Go Home, Stay Home -- Kū‘oko‘a: Independence -- A meditation on pain, solidarity and 2020 -- Muri Lagoon—Te Tai Roto o Muri, Rarotonga -- O le Pese A So‘ogafai -- To Pōhakuloa -- Bombs in Paradise -- No ordinary sun -- Poem for March 1st—Commemoration of the U.S. Bombing of Bikini Island -- Monster -- Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner -- We Are Called -- Afterword -- Contributors