1. Introduction: Voyaging Through the Pacific
1.1. 'Mapping' Pacific literatures
1.2. Defining Oceania: from 'South Seas' to 'South Pacific'
1.3. Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia: the 'culture areas' of the Pacific
1.4. Key concepts and theoretical frameworks
2. Europeans in the Pacific
2.1. European representations of the Pacific in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
2.2. Disease and degeneration: the impact of social Darwinism on fin-de-siecle Pacific writing
2.3. Settler fictions in Aotearoa/New Zealand
3. Warfare and Westernization: Narratives of Conflict, Resistance, and Social Change
3.1. Colonial endeavours and Indigenous responses in the early twentieth century: inscribing resistance
3.3. Maori warrior culture
4. The 1970s and Beyond: The Emergence of the 'New' Pacific Literatures in English
4.2. Fiji and the University of the South Pacific
4.3. Hawai'i and the 'American Pacific'
4.4. The Francophone Pacific
4.5. Easter Island/Rapa Nui: Hispanophone Pacific literature
4.6. The Maori Renaissance and the emergence of Maori literature in English
5. Orality, Textuality, and Memory: The Language of Pacific Literatures
5.1. Pacific orthographies, contact languages, and the rise of English
5.2. Oceanic oral and textual culture
5.3. Mythology and cultural memory
6. Conclusion: Pacific Diasporas
6.1. Globalization and Pacific diaspora culture
6.2. Pacific literary culture since 1990
6.3. Contemporary developments: drama and film
Glossary and List of Acronyms
