Ethnohistory 2005 52(1):137-166; DOI:10.1215/00141801-52-1-137
Duke University Press
Beyond the Horizon? Nationalisms, Feminisms, and Globalization in the Pacific
Margaret Jolly
Australian National University
Abstract.
This paper situates the fraught relation of nationalisms and feminisms in
the context of wider debates about globalization in the Pacific. Through a
reading of the poetry and prose of the late Grace Mera Molisa of Vanuatu and
Haunani-Kay Trask of Hawai`i, it raises questions about what might be
considered "indigenous" and "foreign" in their
different locations. Over several decades of intensive and reflective
political practice, their respective positions on the relation between
nationalisms and feminisms took divergent trajectories. Yet their corpus of
poetry, written primarily in English, raises similar questions about what has
been described by Wilson and Hereniko as the "inside-out" cultural
politics of the contemporary Pacific.

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