About

Susan Najita is an Associate Professor of English and American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her fields of study include Pacific literature in English, Asian American literature, and U.S. minority literature. She is also affiliated with Native American Studies. Her academic work focuses on these areas, contributing to the understanding of minority and indigenous cultures through literature. She is based in the Department of American Culture, located at 3700 Haven Hall, 505 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Literature
• Art
• Biology
• Philosophy
• Law
• Archaeology
• History
• Linguistics
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Keri Hulme (1947–2021)

  Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies · 2022 · 2 citations

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  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science

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• Oceania, Australia, and New Zealand

  Literature · 2022-06-06

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• South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania

  Literature · 2022-06-06 · 1 citations

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• Pleasure and Colonial Resistance: Translating the Politics of Pidgin in Milton Murayama’s All I Asking for Is My Body

  Duke University Press eBooks · 2020

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  • Political Science
  • Art
  • Literature
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• Land, History, and the Law

  Hong Kong University Press eBooks · 2019-08-15

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  This essay examines the history of land acquisition in creating Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park during the period after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and the annexation of the islands to the United States. Its specific focus are the land condemnations and exchanges that went into creating what is known as the Kalapana Extension, an area of active lava flows along the area known as the East Rift Zone. I examine the implications of this history for our understanding of "the public" and conservation’s best legal principal, the public trust doctrine.

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• Land, History, and the Law:

  Hong Kong University Press eBooks · 2019-08-17

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• Annexation and the Environment

  2018-05-23

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  Six years later in 1887, Lorrin A. Thurston, then Minister of the Interior and future architect of annexation, would play a significant role in drafting the Bayonet Constitution which abrogated the King's powers, forcing the King to sign the document at gunpoint. While the cabinet is conspiring to overthrow the King, Queen Kapi'olani and Lili'uokalani are in attendance at Queen Victoria's jubilee. They are allowed several interviews with Victoria whom Lili'u describes as 'one of the best of women and greatest of monarchs'. In Lili'uokalani's account, the Jubilee becomes a narrative occasion for reaffirming Hawaii's monarchical sovereignty that was acknowledged by Great Britain and the other European heads of state in attendance at the precise moment when its sovereign authority is being undermined by the Bayonet Constitution and subsequent Annexation. Victoria does not step in to protect this usurpation and recapitulate the Lord Paulet episode in which Great Britain briefly annexed the islands.

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• For a Song by Rodney Morales

  ˜The œContemporary Pacific/˜The œcontemporary Pacific (Online) · 2018-01-01

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• Review of For a Song, by Rodney Morales

  ScholarSpace (University of Hawaii at Manoa) · 2018-01-01

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• Pacific Studies and Oceania

  The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies · 2016-01-28

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  Abstract The first section of the entry charts the emergence of Pacific Studies out of the years leading up to, during, and after World War II as US military and economic interests facilitated the production of useful knowledge about peoples and places it sought to occupy or influence during the Cold War. Literature by indigenous writers emerged in the post‐independence era of the 1970s with some of the first native writers to be published in the English language. Beginning in the 1980s, there was a critique of neocolonialism and globalization as these ideologies and practices threatened repetition – with a difference – of earlier imperial and colonial forms of oppression. Epeli Hauʻofa's notion of “Oceania,” perhaps the single most influential concept in resituating Pacific Studies, intervenes in these neocolonial discourses. The entry ends with a discussion of diasporic literatures.

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Frequent coauthors

• Bruce Harding

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