六十年代以前,人们所谈的南太平洋文学,都是西方的传教士,旅游者和作家们所写的作品,如A·格罗夫·戴在《太平洋岛屿文学》一书中所列举的一百种著作,没有一种是出自当地人的手笔。这些作品,正如西萨摩亚作家艾伯特·温特(Albert Wendt)所指出的,“不是罗曼蒂克的胡言乱语,就是属于种族主义的货色。”“不管怎样,早期的‘太平洋文学’告诉我们,他们写的都是白种 Before the 1960s, the South Pacific literature that people were talking about was written by Western missionaries, tourists and writers. As A. Grove, cited in Pacific Island Literature, There are hundreds of books, none of which are written by locals. These works, as the Western Samoa author Albert Wendt pointed out, “is not a Romanian nonsense, but a racist item.” "In any case, the early ’Pacific Literature’ told us They write all white