South Pacific Literature
Author | : Subramani |
Publisher | : [email protected] |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Islands of the Pacific |
ISBN | : 9789820200807 |
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Author | : Subramani |
Publisher | : [email protected] |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Islands of the Pacific |
ISBN | : 9789820200807 |
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Publisher | : Cambria Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
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ISBN | : 1621968685 |
Author | : Vilsoni Hereniko |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780847691432 |
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
Author | : Alan P Rems |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612514707 |
“Award-winning author Alan Rems brilliantly tells of the campaigns in the South Pacific, a region long overlooked, offering both the big picture and the foxhole view” — Military Officer “A fitting tribute to the men who fought and died in an often overlooked theater of World War II. As such, it is a welcome addition to our knowledge of World War II in the Pacific Theater.” — On Point: The Journal of Army History While the Pacific War has been widely studied by military historians and venerated in popular culture through movies and other media, the fighting in the South Pacific Theater has, with few exceptions, been remarkably neglected. Authoritative yet written in a highly readable narrative style, South Pacific Cauldron is the first complete history embracing all land, sea, and air operations in this critically important sector of the oceanic conflict.
Author | : Paul Sharrad |
Publisher | : New Literatures Research Centre University of Wollongong |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Epeli Hau‘ofa |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1994-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780824815943 |
In this lively satire of contemporary South Pacific life, we meet a familiar cast of characters: multinational experts, religious fanatics, con men, "simple" villagers, corrupt politicians. In writing about this tiny world of flawed personalities, Hau‘ofa displays his wit and range of comic resource, amply exercising what one reviewer called his “gift of seeing absurdity clearly."
Author | : J. Maarten Troost |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2004-06-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0767915305 |
At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost—who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs—decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of Kiribati. He was restless and lacked direction, and the idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better. The Sex Lives of Cannibals tells the hilarious story of what happens when Troost discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles through relentless, stifling heat, a variety of deadly bacteria, polluted seas, toxic fish—all in a country where the only music to be heard for miles around is “La Macarena.” He and his stalwart girlfriend Sylvia spend the next two years battling incompetent government officials, alarmingly large critters, erratic electricity, and a paucity of food options (including the Great Beer Crisis); and contending with a bizarre cast of local characters, including “Half-Dead Fred” and the self-proclaimed Poet Laureate of Tarawa (a British drunkard who’s never written a poem in his life). With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost has delivered one of the most original, rip-roaringly funny travelogues in years—one that will leave you thankful for staples of American civilization such as coffee, regular showers, and tabloid news, and that will provide the ultimate vicarious adventure.
Author | : Vincent Eri |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Papua New Guinea |
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Author | : William Somerset Maugham |
Publisher | : Mondial |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1595691197 |
In 1916, William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) travelled to the Pacific to research his novel "The Moon and Sixpence," based on the life of Paul Gauguin. This was the first of those journeys through the late-Imperial world of the 1920s and 1930s which were to establish Maugham forever in the popular imagination as the chronicler of the last days of colonialism in India, Southeast Asia, China and the Pacific, although the books on which this reputation rests represent only a fraction of his output.---Maugham reused elements of his Pacific diaries in "The Trembling of a Leaf" (1921), which contains one of his most recognized stories, "Rain," adapted to the stage by John Colton and Clemence Randolph in 1922.
Author | : Paul Theroux |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 731 |
Release | : 2006-12-08 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0547525184 |
The author of The Great Railway Bazaar explores the South Pacific by kayak: “This exhilarating epic ranks with [his] best travel books” (Publishers Weekly). In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors and shark-filled waters, and along treacherous coastlines. Along the way, Theroux meets the king of Tonga, encounters street gangs in Auckland, and investigates a cargo cult in Vanuatu. From Australia to Tahiti, Fiji, Easter Island, and beyond, this exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.