orality, 12, 141, 172

Orientalism, 3–4, 15, 20, 62, 83, 91, 100, 115–116, 130

Oshikawa, Shunro, 6

Pacific

maiden, 8–9, 11, 15, 18, 27, 34–35, 37, 43, 114

motherhood, 18, 189–192

War, 55, 69, 84n2, 103, 189

Way, 128

Pak, Gary, 21, 147–154

Palau, 13–14, 18–19, 21–22, 28, 41–44, 51, 68, 79–82, 84n5, 88–89, 92–95, 126, 179–180, 184–185, 187

papalagi (white people)papalagi (white people), 125, 125, 129

Papua New Guinea, 140, 186

Peace Corps, 54

Peacock, Daniel, 80

Pearl Harbor, 145–146

Pearson, Bill, 175

Peattie, Mark, 2–3, 7, 24–25, 27, 34, 40–41, 77, 92, 103, 115, 172

penal colony, 27, 29, 31, 56

picture bride, 155, 166

pidgin, 16, 135n9, 140–143, 152, 163–164, 166

plantation, 16, 102, 108, 136n12, 140–142, 145–146, 148–151, 155, 158, 163, 165–167

Pocahontas, 18, 32, 37, 176

policeman, 24, 75, 93, 100, 118

Polynesia, 18, 32, 35–36, 94, 96, 112, 135n7, 140, 172, 177, 182, 185, 191

Ponape, 51–53, 85n8

postcolonialism, 10–13, 15–21, 28, 33, 41, 45, 48–49, 54, 58–59, 66–68, 72, 78, 82, 131–133, 140, 144, 147, 150, 152, 155, 167–168, 172, 174–175, 177, 179, 181–182, 185–190, 192

Pratt, Mary Louise, 27, 32–33, 36, 40, 104, 177

Prospero, 31, 64

Puccini, Giacomo, 33, 115

Rarahu, 33, 96, 114, 116

reconciliation, 147, 159, 163, 165–166, 169

regionalism, 128, 192

returnee, 15, 20

Rimbaud, Arthur, 94

Robinson Crusoe, 6, 26, 31–33, 61–62, 67, 84n6, 85n7

Robinsonade, 26

Russia, 6, 70, 150

RyukyuSee also Okinawa, 4, 20

Said, Edward, 3–4, 97

Saiki, Jessica, 17, 147, 154–159

sailor, 100, 107

Saipan, 3, 103, 188–189

Samoa, 3, 9, 12–13, 15, 21, 35, 42, 105, 109, 113–114, 117, 119–120, 127, 129–133, 135n7