{"title":"Maebh Long","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaebh Long's\u003c\/strong\u003e work explores the vibrant intersections of Pacific identity, culture, and history. Her writing offers insightful perspectives on the arts and the evolving narratives within the Pacific region, inviting readers to engage deeply with a dynamic cultural landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough thoughtful analysis and evocative prose, Long illuminates themes of heritage, creativity, and representation, making her books essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary arts and cultural studies within the Pacific context.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-rise-of-pacific-literature-by-maebh-long-9780231217453","title":"The Rise of Pacific Literature","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students of two newly founded universities in the Pacific Islands helped foster a golden age of Oceanian literature. At the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific, bold experiments in curriculum design recentered literary studies around a Pacific modernity. Rejecting the established British colonial model, writer-scholars placed Pacific oratory and a growing body of Oceanian writing at the heart of the syllabus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom this local core, students ventured outward to contemporary postcolonial literatures, where they saw modernist techniques repurposed for a decolonizing world. Only then did they turn to foundational modernist texts, encountered at last as a set of creative tools rather than a canon to be copied or learned by rote.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rise of Pacific Literature\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the transformative role and radical adaptations of global modernisms in this golden age. Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward examine the reading and teaching of Pacific oral narratives, European and American modernisms, and African, Caribbean, and Indian literature, tracing how Oceanian writers appropriated and reworked key texts and techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey identify the local innovations and international networks that spurred Pacific literature's golden age by reading crucial works against the poetry, prose, and plays on the syllabi of the new universities. Placing internationally recognised writers such as Albert Wendt, Subramani, Konai Helu Thaman, Marjorie Crocombe, and John Kasaipwalova alongside lesser-known authors of works published in Oceanian little magazines, this book offers a wide-ranging new account of Pacific literary history that tells a fresh story about modernism's global itineraries and transformations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47406340604140,"sku":"9780231217453","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/61OssOJLJLL.jpg?v=1773963161"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/maebh-long.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}