Bonnie Etherington

Full Vita available on request

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Scholarly Book in Progress

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One Salt Water: Writing the Pacific Ocean in Contemporary Indigenous Protest Literatures

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Peer Reviewed Articles, Special Issues, and Edited Collections

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• Expanding Black and Indigenous Ecologies. Special issue of English Language Notes 62.1. Co-editor with Delali Kumavie. Forthcoming, 2024.

• Global Visions from Oceania. Special issue of Literature Compass. Co-editor with Tina Makereti. Forthcoming.

• Deep Horizons: A Multisensory Archive of Ecological Casualties & Prospects. Co-edited with Brianne Cohen and Erin Espelie. Amherst College Press, 2023.

• " 'I think i beleive in civil rights": Re-Remembering Trans-Indigenous Political Activism in Pauline Vaeluaga Smith's Dawn Raid." Studies in the Novel 54.3: 2022, 293-311.

• "Reckoning with the Oceanic Territoriality of 'Uncle SPAM': Processed Meats and Resurgent Seeds in Craig Santos Perez's Poetics of the Militarized Pacific." Native American and Indigenous Studies 9.2: 2022, 38-65.

• "One Salt Water: The Storied Work of Trans-Indigenous Decolonial Imagining with West Papua. The Contemporary Pacific 34.1: 2022, 1-29.

• “Mapping Modernity in Guam: The Ecologies of Craig Santos Perez’s Poetics.” New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific. Eds. Matthew Hayward and Maebh Long. Routledge, 2019. 100-116.

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Selected Public Writing & Creative Essays

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• “A Fried Egg in Space,” March, 2023. 17-25.

• Contributions to Indigenous Mississippi: Indigenous Art and Activism of the Mississippi River. 2022.

• “Local Issues, Global Entanglements: Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community in the Mississippi River Valley.” Co-written with Sara Černe, Agléška R. Cohen-Rencountre, Andrew Freiman, and Samantha Majhor. Open Rivers Journal. Dec. 2020.

• “The Aloes,” Geometry 4, Nov/Dec 2018.

• “Naming,” in Headlands: New Stories of Anxiety, ed. Naomi Arnold, Victoria University Press, 2018. Reprinted as “What It’s Like to Have a Hummingbird Heart,”  on Vice.com, 17 Oct. 2018.

• "The Books that Formed My Childhood,” The Sapling, 15 June, 2018.

• “A Farewell to an Adopted Nation.” HEAT: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Urban Writing, Kuala Lumpur: Fixi Novo, 2016. Reprinted as “Never Coming Home” ” in Home: New Writing from New Zealand, ed. Thom Conroy, Massey University Press, 2017.

 

Selected Short Fiction

• "True Things." Blue Earth Review 23, Dec. 2019.

• “Flounder,” Landfall 235, May 2018.

• “The Desert Road,” takahē 92, Apr. 2018.

• “Mango Season,” Guernica, 8 May 2017.

• “Fishing Boy.” Headland I, Jan. 2015. Reprinted as"Fishing Boy” by Penguin NZ for Short Story Club with Jesse Mulligan, Radio NZ, 21 April, 2017.

 

Selected Poetry

• “This is my yum," Hawai'i Review Online, May 29, 2019.

• “Catcall on Oakton Street,” Poetry NZ Yearbook 53, 2019. 

• “Kina.” Ika 2, 2014.

• “The Opportunity Shop.” Ika 2, 2014.

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Review Essays/ Book Reviews

• Review of Craig Santos Perez's From Unincorporated Territory series, Chicago Review 64: 1/2/3, June 2021: 335-341.

• Review of New Sea Land by Tim Jones, a fine line: the journal of the New Zealand Poetry Society, Aug 2018.

• “Literature of a Lonely Land,” Review of The Lonely and the Alone: The Politics of Isolation in New Zealand Fiction. By Doreen D’Cruz and John C. Ross, definingnz, Jan 2012: 2-3.

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