From: "Elizabeth DeLoughrey" <emd23-AT-cornell.edu> Subject: New Albert Wendt book: Circling the void Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:54:16 -0800 For those teaching or researching Pacific literatures, I wanted to pass on this reference, a fantastic new book on Albert Wendt's work by Paul Sharrad (with implications for Pacific and postcolonial lits in general). Those of us trying to expand the geographies of postcolonial study know only too well the resistance from some publishers who generally consider the region too "narrow" for interest, so please pass the word on, esp. to your libraries. I understand a paperback version is forthcoming from Auckland UP. Link to the online bibliography below. Thanks, Liz Circling the void: Albert Wendt and Pacific literature (isbn 0-7190-5942-9) Paul Sharrad http://catalogue.mup.man.ac.uk/acatalog/MUP_online_catalogue_20th_Centur y_Literature_65.html Since the 1970s a whole new breed of artists have appeared, telling the stories of Oceania from the inside. 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. It places it in cultural and historical context, 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. There is an extensive bibliography of works by and about Wendt. Pacific literature is now being taught in Australia, the US, New Zealand, Canada, France, Germany, the UK and the Pacific Islands. This book, a much-needed addition to the critical resources in this growing field, will be an invaluable aid to students of both Pacific writing and postcolonial studies in general, from the level of high school through to teaching and research. CONTENTS List of plates/maps Preface Maps Chronology 1. Introduction I Context: Pacific Literature II Life and themes IIIContext: Samoa IV Critical framework and responses 2. Works: Early to 1976 Sons for the Return Home Flying-fox in a Freedom Tree Inside us the Dead 3. Works: Middle to 1986 Pouliuli Leaves of the Banyan Tree Shaman of Visions Birth and Death of the Miracle Man 4. Works: The nineties Ola Black Rainbow Photographs 5. Conclusions Bibliography Index Publication date: August 2003 216x138mm 320pp HB 0-7190-5942-9 Price: £40.00 Information & online bibliography: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/contemporary_pacific/v015/15.2sharrad01.htm l --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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