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Star Waka

2013-11-01 Poetry
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Release : 2013-11-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis Star Waka by : Robert Sullivan

Download or read book Star Waka written by Robert Sullivan. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the cusp of the new millennium, Maori poet Robert Sullivan's third book of poems, Star Waka, explores themes of journeying and navigation, moving back and forth in time and focus to confront colonisation, contemporary political issues and personal questions of family and identity. It came with some strings attached: each poem had to feature either a star, a waka (canoe) or the ocean. Within these parameters, and in 2001 lines, Sullivan creates 100 poems that, he says, themselves function like a waka: &‘members of the crew change, the rhythm and the view changes &– it is subject to the laws of nature'.

Once Were Pacific

2012 History
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Release : 2012
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Once Were Pacific by : Alice Te Punga Somerville

Download or read book Once Were Pacific written by Alice Te Punga Somerville. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between indigeneity and migration among Maori and Pacific peoples

Genealogies, Genomes, and Histories in the Pacific

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Book Synopsis Genealogies, Genomes, and Histories in the Pacific by : Matt K. Matsuda

Download or read book Genealogies, Genomes, and Histories in the Pacific written by Matt K. Matsuda. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Navigating the Stars

2020-10-20 Social Science
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Release : 2020-10-20
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 006/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Navigating the Stars by : Witi Ihimaera

Download or read book Navigating the Stars written by Witi Ihimaera. This book was released on 2020-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From master storyteller Witi Ihimaera, a spellbinding and provocative retelling of traditional Maori myths for the twenty-first century. In this milestone volume, Ihimaera traces the history of the Maori people through their creation myths. He follows Tawhaki up the vines into the firmament, Hine-titama down into the land of the dead, Maui to the ends of the earth, and the giants and turehu who sailed across the ocean to our shores . . . From Hawaiki to Aotearoa, the ancient navigators brought their myths, while looking to the stars — bright with gods, ancestors and stories — to guide the way. ‘Step through the gateway now to stories that are as relevant today as they ever were.’

Landscape, Seascape, and the Eco-Spatial Imagination

2016-05-12 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-05-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Landscape, Seascape, and the Eco-Spatial Imagination by : Simon C. Estok

Download or read book Landscape, Seascape, and the Eco-Spatial Imagination written by Simon C. Estok. This book was released on 2016-05-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from within the best traditions of ecocritical thought, this book provides a wide-ranging account of the spatial imagination of landscape and seascape in literary and cultural contexts from many regions of the world. It brings together essays by authors writing from within diverse cultural traditions, across historical periods from ancient Egypt to the postcolonial and postmodern present, and touches on an array of divergent theoretical interventions. The volume investigates how our spatial imaginations become "wired," looking at questions about mediation and exploring how various traditions compete for prominence in our spatial imagination. In what ways is personal experience inflected by prevailing cultural traditions of representation and interpretation? Can an individual maintain a unique and distinctive spatial imagination in the face of dominant trends in perception and interpretation? What are the environmental implications of how we see landscape? The book reviews how landscape is at once conceptual and perceptual, illuminating several important themes including the temporality of space, the mediations of place that form the response of an observer of a landscape, and the development of response in any single life from early, partial thoughts to more considered ideas in maturity. Chapters provide suggestive and culturally nuanced propositions from varying points of view on ancient and modern landscapes and seascapes and on how individuals or societies have arranged, conceptualized, or imagined circumambient space. Opening up issues of landscape, seascape, and spatiality, this volume commences a wide-ranging critical discussion that includes various approaches to literature, history and cultural studies. Bringing together research from diverse areas such as ecocriticism, landscape theory, colonial and postcolonial theory, hybridization theory, and East Asian Studies to provide a historicized and global account of our ecospatial imaginations, this book will be useful for scholars of landscape ecology, ecocriticism, physical and social geography, postcolonialism and postcolonial ecologies, comparative literary studies, and East Asian Studies.

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