ABSTRACT
South Pacific literature is one of the newest of the “New” literatures in English, with a burgeoning critical tradition that is still mainly confined to articles rather than booklength studies. Most of these articles can be found in the journals Mana, Pacific Moana Quarterly, World Literature Written in English, Landfall, and Span, and in an exhaustive annotated bibliography of critical writings of Nicolas J.Goetzfridt’s Indigenous Literature of Oceania (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1995). Opinions differ on what constitutes the South Pacific in terms of a literary region, but the definition adopted for our purposes is Subramani’s, which is of the II English-speaking Commonwealth countries served by the University of the South Pacific: the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, the Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvaulu, Western Samoa, and Vanuatu.
