An Ocean of Wonder

The Fantastic in the Pacific
Features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative futures, and in so doing reimagines relationships between peoples, environments, deities, nonhuman relatives, history, dreams, and storytelling.
An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative futures, and in so doing reimagines relationships between peoples, environments, deities, nonhuman relatives, history, dreams, and storytelling.

Wonder is activated by curiosity, humility in the face of mystery, and engagement with possibilities. We see wonder and the fantastic as general modes of expression that arenot confined to realism. As such, the fantastic encompasses fantasy, science fiction, magic realism, fabulation, horror, fairy tale, utopia, dystopia, and speculative fiction. We include Black, feminist, and queer futurisms, Indigenous wonderworks, Hawaiian moʻolelo kamahaʻo and moʻolelo āiwaiwa, Sāmoan fāgogo, and other non-mimetic genres from specific cultures, because we recognize that their refusal to adopt restrictive Euro-American definitions of reality is whatinspires and enables the fantastic to flourish.

As artistic, intellectual, and culturally based expressions that encode and embody Indigenous knowledge, the multimodal moʻolelo in this collection upend monolithic, often exoticizing, and demeaning stereotypes of the Pacific and situate themselves in conversation with critical understandings of the global fantastic, Indigenous futurities, social justice, and decolonial and activist storytelling.In this collection, Oceanic ideas and images surround and connect to Hawaiʻi, which is for the three coeditors, a piko (center); at the same time, navigating both juxtaposition and association, the collection seeks to articulate pilina (relationships) across genres, locations, time, and media and to celebrate the multiplicity and relationality of the fantastic in Oceania.

Contributor: ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui (Edited by), Joyce Pualani Warren (Edited by), Cristina Bacchilega (Edited by), Ra`i Chaze (Contributions by), Laura De La Vega (Contributions by), Sosthène Desanges (Contributions by), Joy Lehuanani Enomoto (Contributions by), Solomon Enos (Contributions by), Pono Fernandez (Contributions by), Nicole Ku`uleinapuananioliko`awapuhimelemeleolani Furtado (Contributions by), Sofia Kaleomālie Furtado (Contributions by), Patricia Grace (Contributions by), Andrea Nicole Grajek (Contributions by), Vilsoni Hereniko (Contributions by), Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner (Contributions by), Kahala Johnson (Contributions by), Māhealani Ahia (Contributions by), Michael Lujan Bevacqua (Contributions by), Sarahina Sabrina Birk (Contributions by), Elizabeth Ua Ceallaigh Bowman (Contributions by), Marie Alohalani Brown (Contributions by), Alexander Casey (Contributions by), Robert Sullivan (Contributions by), Kristina R. Togafau (Contributions by), Briana Koani U`u (Contributions by), Albert Wendt (Contributions by), Steven Edmund Winduo (Contributions by), Brittany Winland (Contributions by), Qianqian Ye (Contributions by), Nicholas Thomas (Contributions by), Sloane Leong (Contributions by), Caryn Lesuma (Contributions by), Nai`a Lewis (Contributions by), Tina Makereti (Contributions by), Selina Tusitala Marsh (Contributions by), Mahinatea Shea McCallum (Contributions by), Brandy Nālani McDougall (Contributions by), Kapili`ula Naehu-Ramos (Contributions by), Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng (Contributions by), Lehua Parker (Contributions by), Craig Santos Perez (Contributions by), John Puhiatau Pule (Contributions by), Peter Rawlingson (Contributions by), Marama Salsano (Contributions by), Lyz Soto (Contributions by), Terisa Siagatonu (Contributions by), Dan Taulapapa McMullin (Contributions by), Robyn Kahukiwa (Contributions by), Emelihter Kihleng (Contributions by), Aaron Ki`ilau (Contributions by), Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl (Contributions by), Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada (Contributions by), Tiare Ribeaux (Contributions by)

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