Literary Representations in Western Polynesia
Title | Literary Representations in Western Polynesia PDF eBook |
Author | Sina Va'ai |
Publisher | Conran Octopus |
Total Pages | 430 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Postcolonial Past & Present
Title | Postcolonial Past & Present PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Collett |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 2018-11-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004376542 |
In Postcolonial Past & Present twelve outstanding scholars look to those spaces Epeli Hau’ofa has insisted are full not empty to analyse the ways artists and intellectuals in the postcolonial world make sense of turbulent local and global forces.
Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature
Title | Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Sharrad |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2003-11-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780719059421 |
Albert Wendt is the leading writer and exponent of Pacific literature. His work is consistently different in style, politically challenging, and ranges across essays, plays, poems, stories and novels, two of which have been filmed. This book is the first full-length study of his work. There is an introduction to Pacific literature as a whole and Wendt's Samoan background. Chapters offer readings of all Wendt's major texts in chronological sequence, relating them to his essays, to literary movements of the time and to key motifs from Polynesian culture. There is an extensive bibliography of works by and about Wendt.
Navigating CHamoru Poetry
Title | Navigating CHamoru Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Santos Perez |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2022-01-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0816535507 |
For the first time, Navigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). In this book, poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez navigates the complex relationship between CHamoru poetry, cultural identity, decolonial politics, diasporic migrations, and native aesthetics.
Postcolonial Pacific Writing
Title | Postcolonial Pacific Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Keown |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 2004-12-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134423683 |
This major new interdisciplinary study focuses on the representation of the body in the work of eight of Polynesia's most significant contemporary writers. Drawing on anthropology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, history and medicine, Postcolonial Pacific Writing develops an innovative postcolonial framework specific to the literatures and cultures of this region.
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Title | Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Benson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 1950 |
Release | 2004-11-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134468482 |
" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Bloody Woman
Title | Bloody Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Lana Lopesi |
Publisher | Bridget Williams Books |
Total Pages | 133 |
Release | 2021-12-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1988587964 |
Bloody Woman is bloody good writing. It moves between academic, journalistic and personal essay. I love that Lana moves back and forward across these genres: weaving, weaving – spinning the web, weaving the sparkling threads under our hands, back and forward across a number of spaces, pulling and holding the tensions, holding up the baskets of knowledge. Tusiata Avia This wayfinding set of essays, by acclaimed writer and critic Lana Lopesi, explores the overlap of being a woman and Sāmoan. Writing on ancestral ideas of womanhood appears alongside contemporary reflections on women's experiences and the Pacific. These essays lead into the messy and the sticky, the whispered conversations and the unspoken. As Lopesi writes, 'Bloody Woman has been scary to write... In putting words to my years of thinking, following the blood and revealing the evidence board in my mind, I am breaking a silence to try to understand something. It feels terrifying, but right.' These acts of self-revelation ultimately seek to open up new spaces, to acknowledge the narratives not yet written, and the voices to come.