ABSTRACT
This chapter examines radiation ecologies and nuclear colonialism in the trans-Pacific, trans-indigenous context. Reading Albert Wendt’s novel Black Rainbow (1992) and Syaman Rapongan’s memoir Drifting Dreams on the Ocean (2014), it argues that nuclear colonialism creates an ecological debt to indigenous islanders, who experience a nuclear Pacific as everyday presence and process. Wendt and Rapongan’s common objective of writing/righting the nuclear Pacific serves as a medium for the expression of trans-indigenous solidarity across the Pacific, which contributes to the ongoing survival of the Pacific islanders under the devastating nuclear effects, attesting to what Gerald Vizenor calls as “narratives of survivance.”
