Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa by Jeff Evans (review)

Abstract

writers became unsettled through their Pacific encounters and fervent desires for a nonexistent precolonial romanticized Oceanian experience, Thomas centers the generative work of literary narrative as an authenticating process that ultimately cannot forget its Western lens. Pacific Possessions contributes to contemporary discussions of tourism, globalization, decolonization, and metaphorical spaces of encounters on the beach, the page, and the photograph.