Textiles from the Sea of Islands Sacred Heart nuns and craft advisers in Papua New Guinea and Australia / Diana Wood Conroy -- Reading across the Pacific, reorienting "north" / Diana Brydon -- Nationalism from below folk nationalist formations of Mukunda Das / Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay -- Xavier Herbert's enlightenment the Solomon Islands nightmare, 1928 / Russell McDougall -- Regime change literature and transitional justice / Tony Simoes da Silva -- Laughter and the indigenous trickster aesthetics of Marie Munkara's Every secret thing / Anne Brewster -- Claude McKay and the pestilential city the metropolis, the clinic, the crisis / Anne Collett -- Bodily cloth the making process in artworks by Elsje Van Keppel and Jane Whiteley / Kay Lawrence -- Overseas and underground travel and travellers in Janet Frame's fiction / Dorothy Jones -- "Indias of the mind" maps, mothers, and ethnicized Wonder Woman outfits in Australian-Indian fiction / Meeta Chatterjee-Padmanabhan -- Singing the spiral of time Albert Wendt's The adventures of Vela / Bill Ashcroft -- Comparative history in Polynesia some challenges of studying the past in the postcolonial present / Teresia Teaiwa and Tekura Moeka'a.