The adventures of Vela / by Albert Wendt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wendt, Albert, 1939- author.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Samoan--Fiction.

Mythology, Samoan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 276 pages)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu, HI : University of Hawaii Press, 2009.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

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Summary:

Journey through the many stories and worlds of the immortal Vela, the Samoan song maker, poet, and storyteller â€" Vela, who was so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa. Follow Vela down through centuries as he encounters the single-minded society of the Tagata-Nei and the Smellocracy of Olfact and recounts the stories of Lady Nafanua, the fearless warrior queen, before whom travelling chroniclers still bow down today. A Pacific epic, this novel stretches hundreds of years before the arrival of Papalagi to the present day and fuses the great indigenous oral traditions of storytelling and Western poetry.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 21, 2015).

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Original version:

OCLC:

925847857

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.