Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands.

Intro -- Table of contents -- Editor's note -- Glossing abbreviations -- About the authors -- Introduction -- References -- Part I Inside the storyworld -- Chapter 1 Moving through space and (not?) time: North Australian Dreamtime Narratives -- Chapter 2 We've never seen a cyclone like this: Exploring Self-Concept and Narrator Characterisation in Aulua -- Part II Telling narratives, constructing identities -- Chapter 3 Local ecological knowledge in Mortlockese narrative: Stance, Identity, and Knowing -- 4 Small stories and associated identity in Neverver -- 5 "Sometime is lies": Narrative and Identity in Two Mixed-Origin Island Languages -- Part III Narrative memories, cultures and identities -- 6 Constructing Kanaka Maoli identity through narrative: A Glimpse into Native Hawaiian Narratives -- 7 'Stories of long ago' and the forces of modernity in South Pentecost -- 8 Australian South Sea Islanders' narratives of belonging -- 9 Avatars of Fiji's Girmit narrative -- 10 Samoan narratives: Sociocultural Perspectives -- 11 "[P]ulling tomorrow's sky from [the] kete": Culture-Specific Narractivw Representations of Re/membering in Contemporary Maori and First Australian Novels -- 12 Beyond exile: The Ramayana as a Living Narrative Among Indo-Fijians in Fiji and New Zealand -- 13 Embodied silent narratives of masculinities: Some Perspectives from Guam Chamorros -- Index.

Post-structural and post-modern theories have understood the concept of gender as a "fictitious" element rooted exclusively in a linguistic reality (see Butler, 1990), constituted by an illusory metaphysic of substances. Therefore, for these schools, "there is no gender identity behind the expression of gender" and consequently, gender is exclusively "performatively constituted" (Butler, 1990, 25), mainly as an "effect" of discursive practices. However, if we consider narrative in its wider anthropological sense, we should include not only non-verbal narratives, but also what the anthropology of experience name the "arguments of images" that may or may not have their source in language (see Fernandez, 1986, 164). We analyse this visual narrative through a consideration of Guam Chamorros' constructions of masculinity.

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