Once Were Pacific

Maori Connections to Oceania

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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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 Māori and other Pacific peoples frame their connection to the ocean, to New Zealand, and to each other through various creative works. Māori scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville shows how and when Māori and other Pacific peoples articulate their ancestral history as migratory seafarers, drawing their identity not only from land but also from water. Although Māori are ethnically Polynesian, and Aotearoa New Zealand is clearly a part of the Pacific region, in New Zealand the terms “Māori” and “Pacific” are colloquially applied to two distinct communities: Māori 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 Māori diaspora, Te Punga Somerville provides the first critical analysis of relationships between Indigenous and migrant communities in New Zealand.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-04-11
Mått140 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt396 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN9780816677573
UtmärkelserWinner of Once Were Pacific 2013

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ContentsNgā Mihi: Acknowledgments Introduction: Māori and the PacificPart I. Tapa: Aotearoa in the Pacific Region1. Māori People in Pacific Spaces 2. Pacific-Based Māori Writers3. Aotearoa-Based Māori WritersThe Realm of TapaPart II. Koura: The Pacific in Aotearoa4. Māori–Pasifika Collaborations 5. “It’s like that with us Maoris”: Māori Write Connections6. Manuhiri, Fānau: Pasifika Write Connections7. When Romeo Met Tusi: DisconnectionsThe Realm of KouraConclusion: E Kore Au e NgaroEpilogue: A Time and a Place NotesPublication HistoryIndex

"Alice Te Punga Somerville’s Once Were Pacific is the first major study of how Māori and Pacific people talk to each other in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania. It is a splendid book, remarkably lucid, insightful, comprehensive, and accessible."-Albert Wendt, author of Leaves of the Banyan Tree"Once Were Pacific will help us to push beyond orthodox understandings of complex and contemporary Indigenous identities and representational practices through rigorous scholarship that is Māori focused."-Chadwick Allen, Ohio State University"Alice Te Punga Somverville has writtem a scintillating text that explores the relationship between Maori and our Pacific forebears... "-Ella Henry, Interface"Critical yet imaginative, formalist, and specifically indigenist, the analyses throughout this work are informative, entertaining, and engaging. Ultimately, Once Were Pacific explores works and spaces never before addressed critically."-College Literature"Alice Te Punga Somerville has contributed an outstanding and challenging text to contemporary literary studies in Aotearoa and beyond. With new readings of existing texts, Once Were Pacific offers an impressive depth of analysis about the trade in cultural identity that has evolved in the Polynesian world. This book should be read repeatedly for the insights and understandings the author has carefully presented in its pages."-Journal of New Zealand Literature"Concerned with webs of connections and disconnections across a life as migrants, Once Were Pacific is a literary study of Māori writers writing in English in and across an ocean of islands."-American Quarterly