The Indian Ocean Meets the South Seas

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Notes

1 Further useful points of overlap might be Elizabeth DeLoughrey’s mobilisation of the Polynesian notion of etak – in which it is the islands that are seen to move towards the canoe – to talk about indigenisation and fluidity; the radically ocean-centric perspective of Epeli Hau’ofa’s spatial conception of the ‘sea of islands’; and ways of highlighting the meeting points between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific (Malaysia, southeast Asia and the China seas) in the manner in which Southern Africa and particularly the Cape has been positioned as articulating between the Indian Ocean and Atlantic worlds.