{"product_id":"once-were-pacific-9780816677573","title":"Once Were Pacific","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores the relationship between indigeneity and migration among Māori and Pacific peoples\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\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\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\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNgā Mihi: Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Māori and the Pacific\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\u003cp\u003eConclusion: E Kore Au e Ngaro\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: A Time and a Place \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003ePublication History\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405968089431,"sku":"9780816677573","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816677573.jpg?v=1730494082","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/once-were-pacific-9780816677573","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}