Welou, My Brother
Author: Faith Bandler
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiographical novel about farm life of Islander descendants.
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Bodies and Voices
Author: Anna Rutherford
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9042023341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe articles investigate representations in literature, both by the colonizers and colonized. Many deal with the effect the dominant culture had on the self image of native inhabitants. They cover areas on all continents that were colonized by European countries.
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Author: Eugene Benson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-11-30
Total Pages: 1950
ISBN-13: 1134468482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
Author: Lorna Sage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-09-30
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 9780521668132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.
Making Mala
Author: Clive Moore
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2017-04-10
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 1760460982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMalaita is one of the major islands in the Solomons Archipelago and has the largest population in the Solomon Islands nation. Its people have an undeserved reputation for conservatism and aggression. Making Mala argues that in essence Malaitans are no different from other Solomon Islanders, and that their dominance, both in numbers and their place in the modern nation, can be explained through their recent history. A grounding theme of the book is its argument that, far than being conservative, Malaitan religions and cultures have always been adaptable and have proved remarkably flexible in accommodating change. This has been the secret of Malaitan success. Malaitans rocked the foundations of the British protectorate during the protonationalist Maasina Rule movement in the 1940s and the early 1950s, have heavily engaged in internal migration, particularly to urban areas, and were central to the ‘Tension Years’ between 1998 and 2003. Making Mala reassesses Malaita’s history, demolishes undeserved tropes and uses historical and cultural analyses to explain Malaitans’ place in the Solomon Islands nation today.
The Faces of Human Rights
Author: Kasey McCall-Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-05-16
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1509926925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs human rights discourse increasingly focuses on analysing states and the institutions that promote and support the human rights machinery that states have created, this volume serves to recall that despite the growing size of the machinery and unwieldy nature of states, human rights began with real people. It samples a broad range of actors and localities where everyday people fought to ensure that the basic principles of human rights became a reality for all. This volume will give a face to the everyday people to whom credit is due for shaping human rights. It also responds to the perennial question of how to begin a career in human rights by highlighting that there is no single path into this dynamic field, a field built on the back of small initiatives by people across a broad spectrum of career paths.
Labor's Lot
Author: Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780226676739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalysis of the role of labour in every day activities and its influence on the construction of identity among the Belyuen Aborigines, Cox Peninsula, NT; Western definitions of labour; Aboriginal relationship to land and land ownership; concepts of knowledge and the role of story; negotiation of the land claim process - Kenbi land Claim; representation of pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial Aboriginality in the Darwin region - Laragiya and Wagaitj; Aboriginal women's use and narratives of the past; interpretation of mythic labour and contemporary actions - spirit children, totems; activities affecting the mythic landscape - hunting and sweat; Belyuen economic structures; proportion of bush and store bought food in the diet; use of time; relations with the market economy - local stores, use of money; history of land use and colonial ownership in the Darwin region; contemporary Aboriginal use of the Belyuen region - settlement patterns; process of forming and maintaining cultural identity in contemporary political and economic power structures.
Mixed Matches
Author: June Duncan Owen
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780868405810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals the impact of interracial marriage on Australian society and shows how Australian society has changed over time, with the great majority of Australians now accepting mixed unions when once they were not only rare but provoked hostility and hate.
Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands
Author: Farzana Gounder
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2015-05-15
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9027268673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprising of more than twenty five percent of the world’s known languages, the Pacific is considered to be the most linguistically diverse region in the world. What unifies the region is the culture of storytelling, which provides a fundamental means for perpetuating cultural knowledge across generations. The volume brings together linguists, literary theorists, anthropologists and historians to explore the Pacific peoples’ constructions of identities through narrative. Chapters are organized under three themes: fine grained analysis at the storyworld level, the interactional context of narrative telling, and finally, the interconnections between narrative and cultural memory. The volume reflects the Pacific region’s rich linguistic and cultural diversity, with discussions on the narrativization patterns in Australian and New Zealand English, Palmerston Island and Pitkern-Norfl’k English, Fiji Hindi, Hawaiian, Samoan, Solomon Island Pidgin, the Australian Aboriginal languages Jaminjung and Kriol, the Micronesian languages Mortlockese and Guam Chamorros, and the Vanuatuan languages Auluan, Neverver and Sa.
The New Diversity
Author: Ken Gelder
Publisher: Melbourne : McPhee Gribble
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive analysis of Australian fiction of the 1970s and 1980s ; includes chapter entitled "Aboriginality" (pp.205-242) discussing the retelling of Aboriginal myths, the use of Aboriginal English, contact narratives and identity within the context of Aboriginal writing.
