Albert Wendt And Pacific Literature

Author : Paul Sharrad
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719059421
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature written by Paul Sharrad and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Paul Sharrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719064470
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature written by Paul Sharrad and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s a new breed of artist has appeared, telling the stories of Oceania from the inside. Albert Wendt is a 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. tracing archival sources of themes and key influences, and offers close readings of all the major texts. 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. Canada, France, Germany, the UK and the Pacific Islands. This book, a much-needed addition to the critical resources in this growing field, should prove a useful aid to students of both Pacific writing and postcolonial studies in general, from the level of high school through to teaching and research.

Author : Paul Sharrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869403034
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature written by Paul Sharrad and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Wendt is by far the most prolific and most influential contemporary Pacific Island writer. He has written four books of poetry, three collections of short stories, five novels and has edited three anthologies of Pacific writing. This is the first extended study of this writer.

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824817961
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sons for the Return Home written by Albert Wendt and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1996-06-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this simple, powerful story of cross-cultural encounter.

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1869798589
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mango's Kiss written by Albert Wendt and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic novel stretching out from Samoa to Europe, America and New Zealand, from the turn of the nineteenth century, through the First World War, the Spanish Influenza Epidemic and beyond. Since the 1960s, Albert Wendt has created a profound and fabulous Pacific world that is uniquely his own. A fictional world focused on Samoa and New Zealand and reaching out to the centres of the world, a world inhabited by the richest menagerie of characters in Pacific fiction, characters whose lives and stories reflect our own complex depths. Sixteen years in the writing, The Mango's Kiss is a striking addition to that world. Pele's first moment of remembered consciousness is the morning kiss of the mango fruit on her cheek. That kiss brings with it the awareness of mortality, pleasure and pain. It is a gift from her father, Mautu Tuifolau, the local pastor, the man she adores. Love is never simple, though, and in this story of the struggles and passions of Pele and her family, it must adapt to the growing world that stretches out from village life in Samoa to the cities of Europe, America and New Zealand. It must accommodate the conflicts of a gifted family and the attraction of extraordinary outsiders, from a famous English writer to an American anthropologist, missionaries and the trader Barker, with his quest for gold and epic tales of an adventurous past. And it must encompass the family's links to the ancient gods of pre-missionary times and move through the turn of the nineteenth century, the First World War, the terrible Spanish Influenza Epidemic and beyond.

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824807283
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pouliuli written by Albert Wendt and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1980-11-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when an old man wakes up one morning and finds that everything around him now fills with revulsion? What happens when Faleasa Osovae, the highest ranking alii in the village of Maalaelua, feigns madness and throws away his responsibilities as a chief?

Author : Subramani
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820200807
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Pacific Literature written by Subramani and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824815844
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaves of the Banyan Tree written by Albert Wendt and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic spanning three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa, exploring on a grand scale such universal themes as greed, corruption, colonialism, exploitation, and revenge. Winner of the 1980 New Zealand Wattie Book of the Year Award, it is considered a classic work of Pacific literature.

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 0908321260
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater written by Albert Wendt and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Vaipe has the Roman Catholic Cathedral at its western boundary, the court and police station to the east, the market and harbour in front, and the swamps behind it. These are convenient boundaries that I’ve turned into a symbolic fence for the marvellous world of the Deadwater.’ Albert Wendt crosses into new and deeply personal territory in this stirring BWB Text. Returning to his boyhood in the Vaipe, a suburb of Apia in Samoa, sees Wendt confront elemental questions: Is the Vaipe he has created in his stories, poetry and novels really the Vaipe that existed and exists in real life? Or is it real only in his books? Is there a di erence between the two? And does it matter? The responses form a vivid narrative that draws on a life of award-winning writing, and returns full circle to the symbolic world of the Deadwater.

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : Random House (New Zealand)
ISBN 13 : 9781869413927
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Albert Wendt's Short Stories written by Albert Wendt and published by Random House (New Zealand). This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: