The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism - Paperbackby Maebh Long (Author), Matthew Hayward In the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students of two newly founded universities in the Pacific Islands helped foster a golden age of Oceanian literature. At the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific, bold experiments in curriculum design recentered literary studies around a Pacific modernity. Rejecting the established British colonial model, writer scholars placed Pacific