South sea authors / Robert Dean Frisbie -- Towards a new Oceania / Albert Wendt -- The emergence of a Polynesian literature / Ken Arvidson -- Book distribution in the Pacific Islands / Ron Crocombe --Unfolding like petals / Nigel Krauth -- Between two cultures, interpreting Vincent Eri's The crocodile /Frances Devlin-Glass -- Russell Soaba's Wanpis / Bill McGaw -- The voice in the shadow a survey of writing in Solomon Islands / Julian Maka'a & Stephen Oxenham -- Indo-Fijian fiction and the Girmit ideology / Vijay Mishra -- Hone Tuwhare in his poetry / Bernard Gadd -- Witi Ihimaera, literary diplomacy / Richard Corballis -- Doing her job, Patricia Grace's fiction / Rachel Nunns -- Making the net whole, design in Keri Hulme's The Bone people / Carmel Gaffney --Telling tales on Tiko Epeli Hau'ofa's satiric art /Paul Sharrad -- Samoan writing, the search for the written fagogo / Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop -- Albert Wendt, an assessment / Roger Robinson -- Mates, mum and Maui / Chris Tiffin -- Mountains in the sea /Richard Hamasaki. \
Notes
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-210)