{"product_id":"once-were-pacific-maori-connections-to-oceania-paperback-softback-9780816677573","title":"Once Were Pacific; Maori Connections to Oceania (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816677573","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOnce Were Pacific\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMaori Connections to Oceania\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlice Te Punga Somerville (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816677573\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 April 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.388 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Alice Te Punga Somerville’s \u003ci\u003eOnce Were Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLeaves of the Banyan Tree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOnce Were Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Alice Te Punga Somverville has writtem a scintillating text that explores the relationship between Maori and our Pacific forebears... \"-Ella Henry, \u003ci\u003eInterface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Critical yet imaginative, formalist, and specifically indigenist, the analyses throughout this work are informative, entertaining, and engaging. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eOnce Were Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e explores works and spaces never before addressed critically.\"-\u003ci\u003eCollege Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eOnce Were Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"-\u003ci\u003eJournal of New Zealand Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Concerned with webs of connections and disconnections across a life as migrants, \u003ci\u003eOnce Were Pacific \u003c\/i\u003eis a literary study of Māori writers writing in English in and across an ocean of islands.\"-\u003ci\u003eAmerican Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNative identity is usually associated with a particular place. But what if that place is the ocean? \u003ci\u003eOnce Were Pacific \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNgā Mihi: Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Māori and the Pacific\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I. Tapa: Aotearoa in the Pacific Region\u003cbr\u003e1. Māori People in Pacific Spaces \u003cbr\u003e2. Pacific-Based Māori Writers\u003cbr\u003e3. Aotearoa-Based Māori Writers\u003cbr\u003eThe Realm of Tapa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II. Koura: The Pacific in Aotearoa\u003cbr\u003e4. Māori–Pasifika Collaborations \u003cbr\u003e5. “It’s like that with us Maoris”: Māori Write Connections\u003cbr\u003e6. Manuhiri, Fānau: Pasifika Write Connections\u003cbr\u003e7. When Romeo Met Tusi: Disconnections\u003cbr\u003eThe Realm of Koura\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion: E Kore Au e Ngaro\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: A Time and a Place \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003ePublication History\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52694722248984,"sku":"9780816677573","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/once-were-pacific-maori-connections-to-oceania-paperback-softback-9780816677573","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}