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[Abstract] My paper looks at Albert Wendt’s play The Songmaker’s Chair (2004) as an example of the collective dramatisation of the experience of diaspora carried out by Pacific playwrights in New Zealand. Wendt’s play conforms to a conventional five-act structure but contains fragments of Samoan Fale aitu -a comic form employed as a weapon of social comment- as well as performative elements borrowed from stand-up comedy and hip hop. By combining western and Samoan dramatic forms, Wendt calls attention to the hybrid quality of Pacific identity in diaspora as well as to the range of multicultural elements available in contemporary New Zealand society.

This article is a brief introductory study of the anglophone literature from the South Pacific. Since the 1970s this writing has become consolidated according to the need of rejecting both the colonial visions and stereotypes applied to their population, as well as those related to their geographical location as islands in a remote and unknown ocean. The task of these writers has focused on the establishment of alternative postcolonial representations which are more in agreement with their cultural specificity both in their countries of origin and in their new diasporic locations. As a result, this emergent literature has managed to overcome the exotic connotations of labels like the South Seas or the neocolonial meaning of terms like the South Pacific and provide the bases for a holistic perception of a New Oceania, a vast area of cultural dominance in which each small island and the ocean which links them have become integral parts as their source of definition.

the arrival of the ICT in the domestic sphere has radically changed the understanding of communication. This phenomenon is mostly perceived in the development of a new generation of digital natives: children and young adults who have integrated these strategies in their cultural paradigm. Children’s literature tends to address this change and incorporate these new communicative approaches in their texts so as to evolve with the Information Age. Authors such as Rowling and Pullman clearly intend to do so: they incorporate the use of these new ICT in their narratives in order to stimulate an active readership. The starting point of both authors is to stimulate critical thinking in their child readers, for them to manage the contents they access through the ICT judiciously., l’arribada de les TIC a l’àmbit domèstic ha canviat radicalment la manera en què s’entén la comunicació. Aquest fenomen es percep notablement en el desenvolupament d’una nova generació de nadius digitals: infants i adolescents que han integrat aquestes estratègies dins el seu paradigma cultural. La literatura infantil té tendència a adreçar aquest canvi i incorporar aquestes noves tècniques de comunicació en els seus texts, per tal d’evolucionar d’acord amb l’Era de la Informació. Autors com la Rowling i el Pullman clarament pretenen fer això: incorporen dins les seves narratives l’ús de les TIC per tal d’estimular el lector actiu. El punt de partida d’ambdós autors és estimular el pensament crític en el lector infantil, per tal que aprenguin a manejar els continguts als que tenen accés a través de les TIC amb seny