Literature of the Pacific, Mainly Australian

• Published in: Etropic Vol. 12; no. 2
• Main Author: Pierce, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: James Cook University 02.08.2016
• Subjects: australian; fiction; imagination; islands; literature; new guinea; ocean; pacific; writing

This lecture is in some ways the ‘lost’ chapter of The Cambridge History of Australian Literature (2009), one eventually not written because the projected author could find not enough literary material even in that vast Pacific Ocean, or perhaps found – as mariners have – only far separated specks i...