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Albert Wendt and Pacific literature : circling the void / Paul Sharrad.
Van Pelt Library PR9665.9.W46 Z87 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharrad, Paul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wendt, Albert, 1939---Criticism and interpretation.
- Wendt, Albert.
- Wendt, Albert, 1939-.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Islands of the Pacific--In literature.
- Islands of the Pacific.
- Pacific Area--In literature.
- Pacific Area.
- Samoa--In literature.
- Samoa.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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. 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-289) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0719059429
- 0719064473
- OCLC:
- 52143614
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