Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 08:47:56 -1000
From: Keith Lujan Camacho <kcamacho-AT-hawaii.edu>
Subject: Re: RE: war, loyalty, native subjectivity, etc.


Elizabeth:

Thank you for your insightful comments.  I haven't read anything by 
Frisbie, but I will look at your article.  And, yes, I'd appreciate 
learning more about the pasifika listserve.  Perhaps I can pose my 
question there, too.  But first can you tell me a little about it? 
Again, thank you for your help.  Keith


----- Original Message -----
From: Elizabeth DeLoughrey <emd23-AT-cornell.edu>
Date: Sunday, January 19, 2003 5:59 pm
Subject: RE: war, loyalty, native subjectivity, etc.

> Keith,
> Have you read any of 'Johnny' Frisbie's works? Sounds perfect for 
> your ppr.
> See her autobios 1) Miss Ulysses from Puka Puka and 2) the 
> Frisbies of the
> south seas. 1st was co-written with her (white) US father & 
> published in
> 1948 when she was 15, the second a 'rewrite' of many of the same 
> episodeswith radically different perspectives after his death in 
> 1959. Fascinating
> texts, especially in looking at the biological/genealogical trajectory
> between the romantic 'south seas' narratives (her father was a 
> very popular
> novelist at the time, based his work on the Cooks and Tahiti & heavily
> influenced Miss Ulysses) and the 'native'/gendered inflection of 
> the second
> autobiography which is about growing up as a Cook islander with a 
> whitefather who was a former US military serviceman. There's a 
> great article
> about the first text written by Paul Sharrad [Making Beginnings: 
> JohnnyFrisbie and Pacific Literature. New Literary History 25 
> (1994): 121-136]
> and I've just published an article looking at both texts in a 
> comparativeframework w/in the WW2 context [White Fathers, Brown 
> Daughters: The Frisbie
> Family Romance in Pacific Island Literature. Literature and Racial
> Ambiguity. Ed. Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks. Rodopi 2002.] I did an
> interview with her for the jrnl New Literatures Review (NZ lit issue)
> although I don't know if it's in print yet.
> 
> Both texts unfortunately are out of print. (She's trying to 
> republish both &
> has many children's stories about this era as well). She seems to have
> nearly been erased in the genealogy of Pacific literature, for 
> reasons that
> I can't fathom although I suspect the 'hybrid' authorship of her 
> early texts
> created a problem for those trying to define the field--but it's 
> this very
> question about authorship, authenticity and western influence that 
> I think
> is vital to address in Pacific and postcolonial lit in general. 
> Strangely,there seems to be very little written about indigenous 
> perspectives of WW2
> so your ppr is very timely. Anyway email me off list if you want 
> more info,
> I've collected a massive bibliography about her works and am 
> obviously doing
> whatever I can to get her back on the literary map.
> 
> There's a Pasifika listserve that might also provide other sources-
> -let me
> know if you need the subscription information. Best, Liz 
> (emd23-AT-cornell.edu)
> 
> >Hello:
> 
> I'm doing a paper on World War II commemorations in the Pacific
> Islands.  Issues of war memories, colonial histories, national
> identities and so forth arise in my disscussion of these
> commemorations.  As you know, military histories dominate the 
> study of
> this war in the Pacific.  They often talk about big countries, big 
> gunsand big guys.  But I'm interested in native folks and their
> understandings of this war.  Can anyone suggest, then, readings that
> theorize notions of "native loyalty," "native memory," and perhaps
> even "native colonial patriotism?"  Works that deal within the 
> contextsof war and war commemoration will be greatly appreciated.  
> But I'm open
> to anything.  Thank you in advance.  Sincerely, Keith
> 
> 
> 
> 
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