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Sista, Stanap Strong!

Author : Mikaela Nyman
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776563948
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Sista, Stanap Strong! written by Mikaela Nyman and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sista, Stanap Strong! is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women—and the first of its kind. With poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, and song, its narrative arc stretches from the days of blackbirding to Independence in 1980 to Vanuatu's coming of age in 2020. Most of these writers are ni-Vanuatu living in Vanuatu. Some have set down roots in New Zealand, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, and Canada. Some were born overseas and have made Vanuatu their home. One is just twenty; another is an octogenarian. The writers in this anthology have chosen to harness the coloniser's language, English, for their own purposes. They are writing against racism, colonialism, misogyny, and sexism. Writing across bloodlines and linguistic boundaries. Professing their love for ancestors, offspring, and language— Bislama, vernacular, and English. What these writers also have in common is a sharp eye for detail, a love of words, a deep connection to Vanuatu, and a willingness to share a glimpse of their world. Includes a foreword by Viran Molisa Trief. Cover art: Juliette Pita

No Other Place to Stand

Author : Essa Ranapiri
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776710894
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book No Other Place to Stand written by Essa Ranapiri and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What, then, for the work of poetry? It's at the very periphery of popular speech, niche even among the arts, yet it's also rooted in the most ancient traditions of oral storytelling, no matter where your ancestors originate from. And, as we were reminded by an audience member at the New Zealand Young Writers Festival in 2020, who are we to say poetry cannot change the world?A poem may not be a binding policy or strategic investment, but poems can still raise movements, and be moving in their own right. And there is no movement in our behaviours and politics without a shift in hearts and minds. Whether the poems you read here are cloaked in ironic apathy or bare their hearts in rousing calls to action, they all arise from a deep sense of care for this living world and the people in it.Our poets are eulogists and visionaries, warriors and worriers. Most of all, they're ordinary people prepared to sit and stare at a blank page, trying to do something with the bloody big troubles looming over our past, present and future.— from the introduction by the editors

The Ocean on Fire

Author : Anaïs Maurer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478059052
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Ocean on Fire written by Anaïs Maurer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century, Pacific people have long been subjected to man-made cataclysm. Well before climate change became a global concern, nuclear testing brought about untimely death, widespread diseases, forced migration, and irreparable destruction to the shores of Oceania. In The Ocean on Fire, Anaïs Maurer analyzes the Pacific literature that incriminates the environmental racism behind radioactive skies and rising seas. Maurer identifies strategies of resistance uniting the region by analyzing an extensive multilingual archive of decolonial Pacific art in French, Spanish, English, Tahitian, and Uvean, ranging from literature to songs and paintings. She shows how Pacific nuclear survivors’ stories reveal an alternative vision of the apocalypse: instead of promoting individualism and survivalism, they advocate mutual assistance, cultural resilience, South-South transnational solidarities, and Indigenous women’s leadership. Drawing upon their experience resisting both nuclear colonialism and carbon imperialism, Pacific storytellers offer compelling narratives to nurture the land and each other in times of global environmental collapse.

How to Live with Mammals

Author : Ash Davida Jane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781776564163
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book How to Live with Mammals written by Ash Davida Jane and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All around us, life is both teeming and vanishing. How do we live in this place of so many others and so many last things? How to Live With Mammals is not a book of instruction but a book of reimagining and a book of longing. In these funny and often poignant poems, Ash Davida Jane asks how we might reorient ourselves, and our ways of loving one another, as the futures that we once imagined grow ever more precarious.'Urgent, funny and tender: these poems shine.' --Louise Wallace

A New Bislama Dictionary

Author : Terry Crowley
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820203624
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book A New Bislama Dictionary written by Terry Crowley and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2003 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new Bislama dictionary is a substantially updated version of the first edition, which reflects the ever-changing vocabulary of Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu."--Back cover.

Broken

Author : Anna Shnukal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Broken written by Anna Shnukal and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best friends tell you everything; about their kitchen renovation; about their little girl's new school. They tell you how he's leaving her for a younger model. Best friends don't tell lies. They don't take up residence on your couch for weeks. They don't call lawyers. They don't make you choose sides. Best friends don't keep secrets about their past. Best friends don't always stay best friends.

Beats of the Pa'u

Author : Maria Samuela
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781776920037
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Beats of the Pa'u written by Maria Samuela and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pa' u is the pulse of the Cook Islands, a rhythm carrying narratives of a culture to its people. But beyond the reach of its sound, on another shore, a community is working over the course of decades to build a new life.Kura lands in the footsteps of his father, whose twenty-year estrangement has come to a head. Katerina starts planning for a future, but must bend to the whim of another. Ana is received into a sacred sisterhood. And an Island Mama sets out the rules for love.Beats of the Pa' u is a collection of stories about first- and second-generation Cook Islands New Zealanders living in 1950s to modern-day New Zealand. Powerful, poignant and gently funny, Beats portrays life lived uneasily in the tempo of a different place, by characters who are woven together through community, family and home.

Six by Six

Author : Bill Manhire
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776564731
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Six by Six written by Bill Manhire and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989 and reprinted numerous times, Six by Six remains the definitive introduction to the classic New Zealand short story.Six by Six is a big, generous book. It shows the full range and vitality of New Zealand fiction published in the twentieth century. These are stories of pace and invention, mischief and melancholy, darkness and joy. From a two-page sketch by Patricia Grace to Maurice Duggan' s short novel &‘ O' Leary' s Orchard' . From classics like Katherine Mansfield' s &‘ The Garden Party' and Frank Sargeson' s &‘ Conversation with My Uncle' to the contemporary brilliance of Owen Marshall and Janet Frame.Edited by Bill Manhire.

A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu

Author : Catriona Malau
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760464619
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu written by Catriona Malau and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a trilingual dictionary of Vurës, with meanings provided in both English and Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu. Vurës is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of Vanua Lava in Vanuatu. The dictionary is a companion volume to A Grammar of Vurës, Vanuatu (Malau 2016). There is no established tradition of writing in Vurës and most speakers are not literate in their own language. This dictionary is intended to have a dual purpose: to support the learning of literacy skills in the Vurës community, and as a reference work for linguists. There are four parts to the dictionary. The main part is the most comprehensive and provides the English and Bislama definitions of Vurës words, as well as example sentences for many of the entries, additional encyclopaedic information, scientific names for identified species, lexical relations, and etymological information for some entries. The dictionary contains approximately 3,500 headwords and has a strong emphasis on flora and fauna with close to a third of the entries belonging to these semantic domains. The dictionary has benefited from collaboration with a marine biologist and botanists, who have provided scientific identifications for named species. The main dictionary is followed by English–Vurës and Bislama–Vurës finderlists. The final part of the dictionary is a thesaurus, in which Vurës words are grouped according to semantic categories. The thesaurus has been included primarily so that it can be used to support teaching of literacy skills and cultural knowledge within the community.

Sado

Author : Mikaela Nyman
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776562801
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Sado written by Mikaela Nyman and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friday 13 March, 2015: Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Pam makes landfall with devastating consequences. Vanuatu is bruised but not broken. Reeling from the loss of livelihood and struggling to meet basic human needs, people start to reassemble their lives.Cathryn is an NGO worker from New Zealand who has a ruined home, a teenage son and a Ni-Vanuatu boyfriend she hasn't heard from since the phone lines went dead. Faia is a community organiser, a radio journalist and a survivor who fights for women to be heard. Together and apart they navigate their places in the complex cultural and social systems of Vanuatu, where tradition clashes with modern urban life.Sado is a novel about relationships &– between friends and family, across cultures and communities, and also with the past. When a terrible accident occurs, all of these relationships are called into question.'This evocative novel draws you into its richly described world with great skill and sensitivity. The writing is exquisite and nuanced, and the questions it so subtly raises will linger in your mind. Highly recommended.' —Mandy Hager

Anejom Dictionary

Author : John Lynch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Anejom Dictionary written by John Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate

Author : Roger M. Keesing
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804714501
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate written by Roger M. Keesing and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics in this volume include: interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-19th century; the Sandalwood period; the Tok Pisin language; oceanic Austronesian languages; structures and sources of pidgin syntax; the pidgin pronominal system; and calquing - pidgin and Solomons languages.

The Swinging Bridge

Author : Ramabai Espinet
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443426156
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Swinging Bridge written by Ramabai Espinet and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mona, a film researcher rooted in Montreal, vividly remembers that night in Trinidad when her father, Da-Da, in a drunken rage, threatened to kill her nine-year-old brother, Kello. Years later, a terminally ill Kello asks Mona to revisit their native island and reclaim the property that their family had left behind. As Mona returns to the Caribbean to confront her family's turbulent past, the reader travels back in time—to nineteenth-century India, to British Trinidad, where her ancestors lived as indentured workers in the cane fields, and finally to urban North America. Steeped in the lyrical rhythms of Caribbean life, this exquisite, richly layered novel explores the immigrant experience with compassion and humour. It is a moving story of race and displacement, of love and betrayal, of endings and beginnings—a swinging bridge of the universal search for self. Praise forThe Swinging Bridge "Beautiful, luminous and an utter pleasure to read. A writer as necessary as Ramabai Espinet should be treasured by us for her unique voice and the unique world she shares with us."—Jamaica Kincaid "The Swinging Bridge is a sweeping story . . . of rich heritage—a blend of Indian and Caribbean sounds, scents and celebrations."—NOW Magazine "An extraordinary achievement in the exercise of remembering. . . . Highly charged with moral intent."—George Lamming

Sport 47

Author : Tayi Tibble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781776562954
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Sport 47 written by Tayi Tibble and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Voyagers

Author : Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541620054
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Voyagers written by Nicholas Thomas and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account. One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street Journal The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean? In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward. Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the seagoing technologies that enabled them, and the societies they left in their wake.

Reawakened

Author : Jeff Evans
Publisher : Massey University Press
ISBN 13 : 0995131813
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Reawakened written by Jeff Evans and published by Massey University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important book, ten navigators — the late Hec Busby, Piripi Evans and Jacko Thatcher from Aotearoa New Zealand; Peia Patai and Tua Pittman from the Cook Islands; and Kalepa Baybayan, Shorty Bertelmann, Nainoa Thompson, `Onohi Paishon and Bruce Blankenfeld from Hawai`i — share the challenges and triumphs of traditional wayfinding based on the deep knowledge of legendary navigator Mau Piailug.They also discuss the significance of receiving the title of Pwo (master navigator) from Piailug, and the responsibilities that come with that position. Their stories are intertwined with the renaissance of knowledge and traditions around open-ocean voyaging that are inspiring communities across the Pacific.

Collected Poems

Author : Ursula Bethell
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780864733078
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems written by Ursula Bethell and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ursula Bethell lived from 1874-1945. Born in England, she lived in Christchurch from the 1920s and wrote poetry from 1924. This book contains her three published collections (From a Garden in the Antipodes, 1929, Time and Place, 1936, and Day and Night, Poems, 1924-35), and other poems. First published in 1985. This new edition contains a new introduction, textual notes, and index of titles and first lines.