Revising the Settler Colonial Story in Albert Wendt’s Black Rainbow

Albert Wendt’s Black Rainbow (1992) has been read as an example of a postcolonial and postmodern novel by most literary scholars, as it is a narrative influenced by deconstructionist thinkers and located in New Zealand’s colonial history. However, I argue that the novel must also be understood as settler colonial critique, which interrupts the settler story of conquest, settlement, and Indigenous erasure. Intervening in the stories of successful white settlement that deny a national history of colonial violence, Black Rainbow shatters the teleological presumption of a settler future. Wendt’s novel offers a decolonizing method of reading, which emphasizes re-readings, revisions, and choice, as well as Māori, Pacific Islander, and Pākehā solidarity

Developing model systems for dinoflagellates in the post‐genomic era

Dinoflagellates are a diverse group of eukaryotic microbes that are ubiquitous in aquatic environments. Largely photosynthetic, they encompass symbiotic, parasitic, and free-living lineages with a broad spectrum of trophism. Many free-living taxa can produce bioactive secondary metabolites such as biotox- ins, some of which cause harmful algal blooms. In contrast, most symbiotic species are crucial for sustaining coral reef health. The year 2023 marked a decade since the first genome data of dinoflagellates became available. The growing genome-scale resources for these taxa are highlighting their remarkable evolutionary and genomic complexities. Here, we discuss the prospect of developing dinoflagellate models using the criteria of accessibil- ity, tractability, resources, research support, and promise. Moving forward in the post-genomic era, we argue for the development of fit-to-purpose models that tailor to specific biological contexts, and that a one-size-fits-all model is inadequate for encapsulating the complex biology, ecology, and evolutionary history of dinoflagellates