Oceaning
Oceaning

Author: Adam Fish

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2024-01-19

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 147805901X

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Drones are revolutionizing ocean conservation. By flying closer and seeing more, drones enhance intimate contact between ocean scientists and activists and marine life. In the process, new dependencies between nature, technology, and humans emerge, and a paradox becomes apparent: Can we have a wild ocean whose survival is reliant upon technology? In Oceaning, Adam Fish answers this question through eight stories of piloting drones to stop the killing of porpoises, sharks, and seabirds and to check the vitality of whales, seals, turtles, and coral reefs. Drone conservation is not the end of nature. Instead, drone conservation results in an ocean whose flourishing both depends upon and escapes the control of technologies. Faulty technology, oceanic and atmospheric turbulence, political corruption, and the inadequacies of basic science serve to foil governance over nature. Fish contends that what emerges is an ocean/culture—a flourishing ocean that is distinct from but exists alongside humanity.

Nuanua
Nuanua

Author: Albert Wendt

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1995-04-01

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780824817312

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This important anthology of contemporary Pacific writing in English is a successor to Lali, first published in 1980 and widely read and admired. Nuanua, like Lali, edited by distinguished Samoan writer Albert Wendt, shows the growing strength and confidence of Pacific writing in fiction and poetry since 1980. It includes work from new and well-established writers from nine Pacific communities: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Samoa. The legacy of colonialism and the problems of development and political change are among the themes explored.

Imdeduya
Imdeduya

Author: Gunter Senft

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9027265895

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This volume presents five variants of the Imdeduya myth: two versions of the actual myth, a short story, a song and John Kasaipwalova’s English poem “Sail the Midnight Sun”. This poem draws heavily on the Trobriand myth which introduces the protagonists Imdeduya and Yolina and reports on Yolina’s intention to marry the girl so famous for her beauty, on his long journey to Imdeduya’s village and on their tragic love story. The texts are compared with each other with a final focus on the clash between orality and scripturality. Contrary to Kasaipwalova’s fixed poetic text, the oral Imdeduya versions reveal the variability characteristic for oral tradition. This variability opens up questions about traditional stability and destabilization of oral literature, especially questions about the changing role of myth – and magic – in the Trobriand Islanders' society which gets more and more integrated into the by now “literal” nation of Papua New Guinea.

Pacific Shooter
Pacific Shooter

Author: Susan Parr

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2009-03-01

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780807134481

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"Pacific Shooter is a book of transformations as insubordinate and subversive as Ovid's Metamorphoses -- and with all the taste and twang of a new language. The bourgeois reader will hate it: there's too much magic, too much genius, too much linguistic bliss." -- Susan Mitchell, from her judge's citation "Susan Parr's poetry is an orchestra of rim-shots and flashbang intimacy. 'Wind a sheet around all,' she croons in this vivid collection, 'then bring into the dark this beatific twill.' Her poems pop and vibrate on armatures of spiked sonics and an intellect that twirls with dazzling humor. Awash in verbal intimacies, Parr never forgets to mean, and in doing so she's turned up the potency -- a needle of her verse has a laser's power. Pacific Shooter is the playful sweetness in our last breath, and in these pages, Parr will 'afford you / the machine: the logomotive yo-yo. Go man,' her poems clap. 'Go: yo, yo.'" -- Alex Lemon

Author: M. Bryant

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-07-01

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1453512926

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The Wheels of God
The Wheels of God

Author: Victor Darnell Hadnot

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2003-03-30

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1469702622

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If you like to read Science Fantasy and love a good Mystery, then this is the book for you. Set in the future, a strange group of cosmic events have happened to shape the universe as we know it. But a blind female detective with a magic "sight" wand has been hired to solve a case that is over six hundred years old. You are going to love the Christian point of view that both honors Jesus Christ and tells a story of mystery.