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Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature: Circling the Void

Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature: Circling the Void

Current price: $84.00
Publication Date: November 8th, 2003
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
ISBN:
9780719059421
Pages:
296

Description

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.

About the Author

Paul Sharrad is Associate Professor in English Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia.