An Ocean of Wonder : : The Fantastic in the Pacific / / ed. by ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui, Joyce Pualani Warren, Cristina Bacchilega.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Complete eBook-Package 2024
• MitwirkendeR: Ahia, Māhealani,; Bacchilega, Cristina,; Bevacqua, Michael Lujan,; Birk, Sarahina Sabrina,; Bowman, Elizabeth Ua Ceallaigh,; Brown, Marie Alohalani,; Casey, Alexander,; Chaze, Ra’i,; De La Vega, Laura,; Desanges, Sosthène,; Enomoto, Joy Lehuanani,; Enos, Solomon,; Fernandez, Pono,; Furtado, Nicole Ku‘uleinapuananioliko‘awapuhimelemeleolani,; Furtado, Sofia Kaleomālie,; Grace, Patricia,; Grajek, Andrea Nicole,; Hereniko, Vilsoni,; Ho‘Omanawanui, Ku‘Ualoha,; Jetñil-Kijiner, Kathy,; Johnson, Kahala,; Kahukiwa, Robyn,; Kapumealani Ng, Jocelyn,; Kihleng, Emelihter,; Ki‘ilau, Aaron,; Kneubuhl, Victoria Nalani,; Koani U‘u, Briana,; Kuwada, Bryan Kamaoli,; Leong, Sloane,; Lesuma, Caryn,; Lewis, Nai‘a-Ulumaimalu,; Makereti, Tina,; Marsh, Selina Tusitala,; McCallum, Mahinatea Shea,; McDougall, Brandy Nālani,; McMullin, Dan Taulapapa,; Naehu-Ramos, Kapili‘ula,; Ng, Jocelyn Kapumealani,; Parker, Lehua,; Perez, Craig Santos,; Pule, John,; Ribeaux, Tiare,; Salsano, Marama,; Siagatonu, Terisa,; Soto, Lyz,; Sullivan, Robert,; Thomas, Nicholas,; Togafau, Kristina R.,; U‘u, Briana Koani,; Warren, Joyce Pualani,; Wendt, Albert,; Winduo, Steven,; Winland, Brittany,; Ye, Qianqian,
• HerausgeberIn: Bacchilega, Cristina,; Warren, Joyce Pualani,; ho‘omanawanui, ku‘ualoha,
• TeilnehmendeR: Rawlingson, Peter,.
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (370 p.) :; 16 b&w illustrations, 26 color plates

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative futures, and in so doing reimagines relationships between peoples, environments, deities, nonhuman relatives, history, dreams, and storytelling. Wonder is activated by curiosity, humility in the face of mystery, and engagement with possibilities. We see wonder and the fantastic as general modes of expression that are not confined to realism. As such, the fantastic encompasses fantasy, science fiction, magic realism, fabulation, horror, fairy tale, utopia, dystopia, and speculative fiction. We include Black, feminist, and queer futurisms, Indigenous wonderworks, Hawaiian moʻolelo kamahaʻo and moʻolelo āiwaiwa, Sāmoan fāgogo, and other non-mimetic genres from specific cultures, because we recognize that their refusal to adopt restrictive Euro-American definitions of reality is what inspires and enables the fantastic to flourish.As artistic, intellectual, and culturally based expressions that encode and embody Indigenous knowledge, the multimodal moʻolelo in this collection upend monolithic, often exoticizing, and demeaning stereotypes of the Pacific and situate themselves in conversation with critical understandings of the global fantastic, Indigenous futurities, social justice, and decolonial and activist storytelling. In this collection, Oceanic ideas and images surround and connect to Hawaiʻi, which is for the three coeditors, a piko (center); at the same time, navigating both juxtaposition and association, the collection seeks to articulate pilina (relationships) across genres, locations, time, and media and to celebrate the multiplicity and relationality of the fantastic in Oceania.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Oceanic Wonder across Tā and Vā: An Alternative Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Kīauau, Hōauau—Navigating Our Fantastic Sea of Islands -- Te Pō -- He Holomoana Āiwaiwa (A Fantastic Voyage) Navigating Wonder in Pasifika Literature -- Into the Tupuaga -- Artist Statement: Aitu Studies -- Aitu -- Histories of Wonder, Futures of Wonder: Chamorro Activist Identity, Community, and Leadership in “The Legend of Gadao” and “The Women Who Saved Guåhan from a Giant Fish” -- Artists’ Statement for She Who Dies to Live: Lifting the Veil -- She Who Dies to Live -- Reconstituting Indigenous Oceanic Folktales -- Artist Statement for Pouliuli (from the Interstellar Series) -- Dreaming Indigenous Realities in Young Adult Literatures of Oceania -- Artists’ Statement for “Bowl of Stars” -- Bowl of Stars -- Artist Statement: The Art of John Pule -- Artist Statement: Writing from the Vā -- Ho‘oulu Lāhui -- Auntie -- Artist Statement for “ ‘Āina Hānau” -- Selections from “ ‘Āina Hānau” -- Artist Statement for Līlīnoe -- Artists’ Statement for “Across Lewa and Kikilo” and Ma Waena -- Across Lewa and Kikilo -- An Aloha ‘Āina Imaginary: Kahikina Kelekona and the Fantastic -- Artist Statement for Hānau Pō‘ele and Makalei -- Artist Statement: Once upon One Time -- Tourists -- Artist Statement for Kanaloa, Nanaue, The Puhi Rider -- Artist Statement for “Ka Hoaka” -- Ka Hoaka -- Artist Statement for “When We Become Home” -- When We Become Home -- Nā Mana Mo‘olelo, Nā Mo‘olelo Mana Adaptations of Mo‘olelo Hawai‘i to Empower Mo‘olelo through the Generations -- Artist Statement for Ka Lei Hulu a Kahelekūlani i Hi‘ilaniwai (The Feather Lei of Kahelekūlani at Hi‘ilaniwai) -- Artists’ Statement for “Hāloa‘aikanaka: An Origin Story of the Rise of the Third-Born Hāloa” -- Hāloa‘aikanaka: An Origin Story of the Rise of the Third-Born Hāloa -- Artists’ Statement for Nakili -- The Fag End of Fāgogo -- Artist Statement for “The Forever Spam, 2055” -- The Forever Spam, 2055 -- Ko au tēnei -- Cyberspace Is an Island in Oceania A Close Reading of “Te Kuharere Tapes” by @tekahureremoa -- Black Milk -- Artist Statement: An Interview with Sosthène Desanges -- “A Crossing in Dark Waters” from Ash & Vanille -- Hiti, the Return of the Navigator -- 2140AD -- Ocean Birth -- The Wind through Stars -- Drawing from the Margins: Speculating Pacific Diasporas across Discipline, Genre, and Form -- Artist Statement for “Padil o (the Paddle)” -- Padil o (the Paddle) -- Artist Statement for Sina ma Tinirau -- Vilsoni Hereniko -- Artist Statement for Ia Ora Taaroa, Paraoa Iti ē (Greetings Taaroa, Little Whale) -- Contributors