Post-colonial Essays on South Pacific Literature

Post-colonial Essays on South Pacific Literature PDF Author: Patrick D. Morrow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Morrow (literature, Auburn U.) explores South Pacific literature. Essays are arranged in sections on Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Islands. Topics include Elizabeth Jolley's Foxybaby, Maori versus Pakeha in Patricia Grace's Waiariki, Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa as a novel, and Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism from three perspectives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Post-colonial Essays on South Pacific Literature

Post-colonial Essays on South Pacific Literature PDF Author: Patrick D. Morrow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Book Description
Morrow (literature, Auburn U.) explores South Pacific literature. Essays are arranged in sections on Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Islands. Topics include Elizabeth Jolley's Foxybaby, Maori versus Pakeha in Patricia Grace's Waiariki, Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa as a novel, and Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism from three perspectives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Reading the "new" Literatures in a Postcolonial Era

Reading the Author: Susheila Nasta
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9780859916011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Essays on the contribution of African, Caribbean, Asian and diaspora writers to 'English' literature. The 'new' literatures have most commonly been seen as a staging post en route to the current 'post-colonial' era. Yet these literatures and the diverse cultural histories they represent are older than such recent interpretations of them. This collection of essays investigates ways in which we can return to 'reading' these 'new' literatures without falling back on current critical assumptions.

A Sense of Audience

A Sense of Audience PDF Author: William McGaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780864181008
Category : Commonwealth literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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For Better or for Worse

For Better or for Worse PDF Author: Sabine Fenton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131764056X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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The essays in this book explore the vital role translation has played in defining, changing and redefining linguistic, cultural, ethnic and political identities in several nations of the South Pacific. While in other parts of the world postcolonial scholars have scrutinized the role and history of translation and exposed its close relationship with the colonizers, this has not yet happened in the specific region covered in this collection. In translation studies the Pacific region is terra incognita. The writers of this volume of essays reveal that in the Pacific, as in all other once colonized parts of the world, colonialism and translation went hand in hand. The unsettling power of translation is described as it effected change for better or for worse. While the Pacific Islanders' encounter with the Europeans has previously been described as having a 'Fatal Impact', the authors of these essays are further able to demonstrate that the Pacific Islanders were not only victims but also played an active role in the cross-cultural events they were party to and in shaping their own destinies. Examples of the role of translation in effecting change - for better or for worse - abound in the history of the nations of the Pacific. These stories are told here in order to bring this region into the mainstream scholarly attention of postcolonial and translation studies.

Inside Out

Inside Out PDF Author: Vilsoni Hereniko
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847691432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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In a time of dynamism and contradiction in Pacific cultural production, a time of 'turning things over' and 'writing from the inside out, ' this far-reaching volume provides a comprehensive set of essays and interviews on the emergent literatures of the New Pacific. With its dynamic combination of important position papers, polemics, and decolonizing critiques by noted authors and of analysis by new and established post-colonial scholars, this volume exposes 'the maze and mix of literatures and cultural identities breaking down and building up across the Pacific Ocean.' This pioneering work will be the definitive resource for anyone researching or teaching Pacific literature and will be invaluable for bringing Pacific culture to readers outside the region

Inventing Countries

Inventing Countries PDF Author: William McGaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780864180636
Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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The Given Condition

The Given Condition PDF Author: South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473003722
Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Representing the South Pacific

Representing the South Pacific PDF Author: Rod Edmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521550548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists between 1767 and 1914 by drawing on history, literature, art history, and anthropology. Edmond engages with colonial texts and postcolonial theory, criticising both for their failure to acknowledge the historical specificity of colonial discourses and cultural encounters, and for continuing to see indigenous cultures in essentially passive or reactive terms. The book offers a detailed and grounded 'reading back' of these colonial discourses into the metropolitan centres which gave rise to them, while resisting the idea that all representations of other cultures are merely self-representations. Among its themes are the persistent myth-making around the figure of Cook, the western obsession with Polynesian sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism, and leprosy, and the Pacific as a theatre for adventure and as a setting for Europe's displaced fears of its own cultural extinction.

Postcolonial Past & Present

Postcolonial Past & Present PDF Author: Anne Collett
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004376542
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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In Postcolonial Past & Present twelve outstanding scholars of literature, history and visual arts look to those spaces Epeli Hau’ofa has insisted are full not empty, asking what it might mean to Indigenise culture. A new cultural politics demands new forms of making and interpretation that rethink and reroute existing cultural categories and geographies. These ‘makers’ include Mukunda Das, Janet Frame, Xavier Herbert, Tomson Highway, Claude McKay, Marie Munkara, Elsje van Keppel, Albert Wendt, Jane Whiteley and Alexis Wright. Case studies from Canada to the Caribbean, India to the Pacific, and Africa, analyse the productive ways that artists and intellectuals have made sense of turbulent local and global forces. Contributors: Bill Ashcroft, Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay, Anne Brewster, Diana Brydon, Meeta Chatterjee—Padmanabhan, Anne Collett, Dorothy Jones, Kay Lawrence, Russell McDougall, Tekura Moeka’a, Tony Simões da Silva, Teresia Teaiwa, Albert Wendt, Lydia Wevers, Diana Wood Conroy

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English PDF Author: Eugene Benson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134468482
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1950

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" ... 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.