Bibliography of non-indigenous literary writings on the Pacific

cited in Pearson, p.43
@Dibner, Martin, The General, Garden City: Doubleday, ^1967? %US #PAC *Fic War
Serend196/760 also listed as The Admiral
@Divine, David, The King <strong>of</strong> Fassarai, New York: Macmillan, ^1950, %UK #PAC Micronesia
*Fic
Divine was a war correspondent and traveller who worked with US troops in the Pacific. He
wrote in Britain as David Rame.
The King <strong>of</strong> Fassarai refers to a navy doctor who is posted to a forward base on a
Micronesian atoll to do something about the islanders who are dying. The book gives a good
sense <strong>of</strong> the pace <strong>of</strong> local life and the fatalism induced by Japanese abduction <strong>of</strong> youth
followed by American relocation away from gardens. Its low-key mock heroic tone and close
observation <strong>of</strong> village ways is refreshing, though agency is firmly located in white paternalism.
@Dixon, Franklin W., First Stop Honolulu or Ted Scott over the Pacific. NY: Grossett &
Dunlap, nd?1927 %US #Pac *juv fic
@Dodson, K., Away all Boats, A Novel, Boston: Little, Brown, ^1954/London: 1955, %US
#PAC *Fic search PS3554/O34A94 Main U.Q.
War novel.
@Dorman, T.E., The Islander, Auckland & London: Collins, ^1974, %NZ #Samoa/NZ *Fic
Teacher passed over for a scholarship to NZ is shamed and migrates. Caught in the cycle <strong>of</strong>
urban underclass poverty, he is lured into minor crime and an affair by some local mixed-race
Samoans. The community and his village girlfriend save him and he returns and redeems
himself. Measures the problem <strong>of</strong> finding regular payments for the aiga at home against the
support it provides for individuals. Narrated from an 'outside looking on' position that
produces some 'ethnographic' sounding generalisations about Samoans which position them
as social curiosities for a white readership. Given the time <strong>of</strong> publication and similar story-line,
it makes an interesting contrast to Albert Wendt's Sons for the Return Home.
@Dowse, Sara, Schemetime, Ringwood: Penguin (Australia), ^1990, %AUS #PAC *Fic
makes use <strong>of</strong> Will Mariner material and Maui myth; partly set on a filmaker’s
journey by boat from Australia to California
@Doyle, Richard, Pacific Clipper, London: Arlington Books ^1986 , %UK #PAC *Fic WW2
An action-packed blockbuster based on intrigue and espionage surrounding China’s
politicking at the outset <strong>of</strong> Japan’s entry into a Pacific war. The story moves from Hong Kong
to Manila to New Guinea to Wake Island and Honolulu, ending in San Francisco. It features
aspects <strong>of</strong> the raid on Pearl Harbour and the divided loyalties <strong>of</strong> Japanese Americans, but the
Pacific is mostly incidental backdrop to the action.
@Drilhon, Freddy, Une Goélette - récit, Paris:Amiot Dumont, ^1956
The Schooner (tr L.A. Barker), 1959 %FR #Pac * Fic?
search
@Dunlop, John, The South Sea Islanders: a Christian Tale, London: 1841, %UK #PAC
*Drama
cited in Pearson, pp. 31-2, 34
@Dunn, J. Allan, Jim Morse, South Sea Trader, London: Nelson, n.d., %?#PAC *Fic juv
ser 197/554
@Dutton, Ge<strong>of</strong>frey, Queen Emma <strong>of</strong> the South Seas, Melbourne: Sun Books, ^1967,
rep1988, /Macmillan, 1976, %AUS #PAC Samoa/NG *fict biog serend 201/639 search
@Ellis, Sarah, The Island Queen, a Poem, London: ^1846, %UK #POL *Poetry search
married William Ellis after his Pacific mission; published on the civilising role <strong>of</strong> the
genteel woman; barbarians were macho without a family life. cited in Pearson,
p.32