Once Were Pacific: Maori Connections to Oceania - Tapa blanda

Te Punga Somerville, Alice

 
9780816677573: Once Were Pacific: Maori Connections to Oceania
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ISBN 10: 0816677573 ISBN 13: 9780816677573
Editorial: University of Minnesota Press, 2012

Sinopsis

Native identity is usually associated with a particular place. But what if that place is the ocean? Once Were Pacific explores this question as it considers how Maori and other Pacific peoples frame their connection to the ocean, to New Zealand, and to each other through various creative works. Maori scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville shows how and when Maori and other Pacific peoples articulate their ancestral history as migratory seafarers, drawing their identity not only from land but also from water. Although Maori are ethnically Polynesian, and Aotearoa New Zealand is clearly a part of the Pacific region, in New Zealand the terms "Maori"and "Pacific"are colloquially applied to two distinct communities: Maori are Indigenous, and "Pacific"refers to migrant communities from elsewhere in the region. Asking how this distinction might blur historical and contemporary connections, Te Punga Somerville interrogates the relationship between indigeneity, migration, and diaspora, focusing on texts: poetry, fiction, theater, film, and music, viewed alongside historical instances of performance, journalism, and scholarship.In this sustained treatment of the Maori diaspora, Te Punga Somerville provides the first critical analysis of relationships between Indigenous and migrant communities in New Zealand.

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Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Atiawa) is senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, where she teaches Maori, Pacific, and Indigenous writing in English.

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Editorial
University of Minnesota Press
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0816677573
ISBN 13 
9780816677573
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
298
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