ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how two indigenous Pacific writers have responded to the militarized effects of contemporary British and US imperialism. It emphasizes their indigeneity not to assert a rarefied authenticity for their voices vis-a-vis expatriates or migrants in the Pacific, but rather to draw attention to the conditions that limit and constrain more indigenous Pacific Islanders from documenting and/or creatively responding to similar phenomena. The focus here is specifically on a short story by Fijian writer Joseph Veramu and a poem by internationally acclaimed Samoan writer Sia Figiel. The strategies taken to discuss each author and their respective works differ, partly because the works themselves raise distinct issues, and partly to demonstrate a range of possible angles for analyzing British and US imperialism. The object of analysis in the chapter is the Global War on Terror, which in the first decade and a half of this century has exemplified the collusions of what might be described as Anglo-American imperialism.
