Sista Stanap Strong

Author : Mikaela Nyman,Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781776563944

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Sista, Stanap Strong! by Mikaela Nyman,Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen Pdf

Sista, Stanap Strong! is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women—and the first of its kind. With poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, and song, its narrative arc stretches from the days of blackbirding to Independence in 1980 to Vanuatu's coming of age in 2020. Most of these writers are ni-Vanuatu living in Vanuatu. Some have set down roots in New Zealand, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, and Canada. Some were born overseas and have made Vanuatu their home. One is just twenty; another is an octogenarian. The writers in this anthology have chosen to harness the coloniser's language, English, for their own purposes. They are writing against racism, colonialism, misogyny, and sexism. Writing across bloodlines and linguistic boundaries. Professing their love for ancestors, offspring, and language— Bislama, vernacular, and English. What these writers also have in common is a sharp eye for detail, a love of words, a deep connection to Vanuatu, and a willingness to share a glimpse of their world. Includes a foreword by Viran Molisa Trief. Cover art: Juliette Pita

Author : Vanda Symon
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742532387

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The Faceless by Vanda Symon Pdf

Bradley is a middle-aged man trapped in middle-class New Zealand. He is in a job that he hates, working day after day to support his wife and two children. One day when it all gets too much, Bradley picks up a teenage hooker in downtown Auckland. Unfortunately he can't keep it up and then she laughs at him. That was a mistake. He beats her, ties her up and takes her to an abandoned warehouse that he owns. But then he doesn't know what to do. Max is homeless. He eats from rubbish bins, bums cigarettes from anyone and anywhere, including the footpath, and he doesn't smell that fresh. But Max has one friend and she has gone missing. If he is to find her he is going to have to call on some people from his past life and re-open old wounds that have remained unhealed for a long time. A hard-hitting and fast-paced thriller from Vanda Symon, New Zealand's 'Queen of Crime'.

Author : Essa Ranapiri,Rebecca Hawkes,Jordan Hamel,Erik Kennedy
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781776710898

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No Other Place to Stand by Essa Ranapiri,Rebecca Hawkes,Jordan Hamel,Erik Kennedy Pdf

What, then, for the work of poetry? It's at the very periphery of popular speech, niche even among the arts, yet it's also rooted in the most ancient traditions of oral storytelling, no matter where your ancestors originate from. And, as we were reminded by an audience member at the New Zealand Young Writers Festival in 2020, who are we to say poetry cannot change the world?A poem may not be a binding policy or strategic investment, but poems can still raise movements, and be moving in their own right. And there is no movement in our behaviours and politics without a shift in hearts and minds. Whether the poems you read here are cloaked in ironic apathy or bare their hearts in rousing calls to action, they all arise from a deep sense of care for this living world and the people in it.Our poets are eulogists and visionaries, warriors and worriers. Most of all, they're ordinary people prepared to sit and stare at a blank page, trying to do something with the bloody big troubles looming over our past, present and future.— from the introduction by the editors

Author : Anaïs Maurer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781478059059

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The Ocean on Fire by Anaïs Maurer Pdf

Bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century, Pacific people have long been subjected to man-made cataclysm. Well before climate change became a global concern, nuclear testing brought about untimely death, widespread diseases, forced migration, and irreparable destruction to the shores of Oceania. In The Ocean on Fire, Anaïs Maurer analyzes the Pacific literature that incriminates the environmental racism behind radioactive skies and rising seas. Maurer identifies strategies of resistance uniting the region by analyzing an extensive multilingual archive of decolonial Pacific art in French, Spanish, English, Tahitian, and Uvean, ranging from literature to songs and paintings. She shows how Pacific nuclear survivors’ stories reveal an alternative vision of the apocalypse: instead of promoting individualism and survivalism, they advocate mutual assistance, cultural resilience, South-South transnational solidarities, and Indigenous women’s leadership. Drawing upon their experience resisting both nuclear colonialism and carbon imperialism, Pacific storytellers offer compelling narratives to nurture the land and each other in times of global environmental collapse.

Author : Ash Davida Jane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1776564162

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How to Live with Mammals by Ash Davida Jane Pdf

All around us, life is both teeming and vanishing. How do we live in this place of so many others and so many last things? How to Live With Mammals is not a book of instruction but a book of reimagining and a book of longing. In these funny and often poignant poems, Ash Davida Jane asks how we might reorient ourselves, and our ways of loving one another, as the futures that we once imagined grow ever more precarious.'Urgent, funny and tender: these poems shine.' --Louise Wallace

Author : Tayi Tibble,Fergus Barrowman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177656295X

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Sport 47 by Tayi Tibble,Fergus Barrowman Pdf

Author : Terry Crowley
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9820203627

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A New Bislama Dictionary by Terry Crowley Pdf

"A new Bislama dictionary is a substantially updated version of the first edition, which reflects the ever-changing vocabulary of Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu."--Back cover.

Author : Anna Shnukal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015014962701

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Broken by Anna Shnukal Pdf

Best friends tell you everything; about their kitchen renovation; about their little girl's new school. They tell you how he's leaving her for a younger model. Best friends don't tell lies. They don't take up residence on your couch for weeks. They don't call lawyers. They don't make you choose sides. Best friends don't keep secrets about their past. Best friends don't always stay best friends.

Author : Maria Samuela
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 1776920031

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Beats of the Pa'u by Maria Samuela Pdf

The pa' u is the pulse of the Cook Islands, a rhythm carrying narratives of a culture to its people. But beyond the reach of its sound, on another shore, a community is working over the course of decades to build a new life.Kura lands in the footsteps of his father, whose twenty-year estrangement has come to a head. Katerina starts planning for a future, but must bend to the whim of another. Ana is received into a sacred sisterhood. And an Island Mama sets out the rules for love.Beats of the Pa' u is a collection of stories about first- and second-generation Cook Islands New Zealanders living in 1950s to modern-day New Zealand. Powerful, poignant and gently funny, Beats portrays life lived uneasily in the tempo of a different place, by characters who are woven together through community, family and home.

Author : Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541620056

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Voyagers by Nicholas Thomas Pdf

An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account. One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street Journal The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean? In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward. Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the seagoing technologies that enabled them, and the societies they left in their wake.

Author : Bill Manhire
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781776564736

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Six by Six by Bill Manhire Pdf

First published in 1989 and reprinted numerous times, Six by Six remains the definitive introduction to the classic New Zealand short story.Six by Six is a big, generous book. It shows the full range and vitality of New Zealand fiction published in the twentieth century. These are stories of pace and invention, mischief and melancholy, darkness and joy. From a two-page sketch by Patricia Grace to Maurice Duggan' s short novel &‘ O' Leary' s Orchard' . From classics like Katherine Mansfield' s &‘ The Garden Party' and Frank Sargeson' s &‘ Conversation with My Uncle' to the contemporary brilliance of Owen Marshall and Janet Frame.Edited by Bill Manhire.

Author : Jeff Evans
Publisher : Massey University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780995131811

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Reawakened by Jeff Evans Pdf

In this important book, ten navigators — the late Hec Busby, Piripi Evans and Jacko Thatcher from Aotearoa New Zealand; Peia Patai and Tua Pittman from the Cook Islands; and Kalepa Baybayan, Shorty Bertelmann, Nainoa Thompson, `Onohi Paishon and Bruce Blankenfeld from Hawai`i — share the challenges and triumphs of traditional wayfinding based on the deep knowledge of legendary navigator Mau Piailug.They also discuss the significance of receiving the title of Pwo (master navigator) from Piailug, and the responsibilities that come with that position. Their stories are intertwined with the renaissance of knowledge and traditions around open-ocean voyaging that are inspiring communities across the Pacific.

Author : John Dominic Lynch,Philip Tepahae
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aneityum language
ISBN : UVA:X006120666

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Anejõm Dictionary by John Dominic Lynch,Philip Tepahae Pdf

Author : Denise Riley
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781529078145

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Lurex by Denise Riley Pdf

A brilliant outing from one of the finest poets currently working in the English language. This is at once a sharply political and deeply personal book which explores just that intersection. ‘Wide-ranging, sometimes anguished, her poems are fascinating and often beautiful, and certainly more than usually thought-provoking’ Guardian

Author : Catriona Malau
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781760464615

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A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu by Catriona Malau Pdf

This is a trilingual dictionary of Vurës, with meanings provided in both English and Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu. Vurës is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of Vanua Lava in Vanuatu. The dictionary is a companion volume to A Grammar of Vurës, Vanuatu (Malau 2016). There is no established tradition of writing in Vurës and most speakers are not literate in their own language. This dictionary is intended to have a dual purpose: to support the learning of literacy skills in the Vurës community, and as a reference work for linguists. There are four parts to the dictionary. The main part is the most comprehensive and provides the English and Bislama definitions of Vurës words, as well as example sentences for many of the entries, additional encyclopaedic information, scientific names for identified species, lexical relations, and etymological information for some entries. The dictionary contains approximately 3,500 headwords and has a strong emphasis on flora and fauna with close to a third of the entries belonging to these semantic domains. The dictionary has benefited from collaboration with a marine biologist and botanists, who have provided scientific identifications for named species. The main dictionary is followed by English–Vurës and Bislama–Vurës finderlists. The final part of the dictionary is a thesaurus, in which Vurës words are grouped according to semantic categories. The thesaurus has been included primarily so that it can be used to support teaching of literacy skills and cultural knowledge within the community.