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Book

Publication Details

Sharrad, P. (2003). Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature: Circling the void. (1 ed.). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 296p.

Digital file of full text not available. To access a copy of this book, please contact Michael Organ, Manager Repository Services: morgan@uow.edu.au.

Google Books open access version (pages 1-82 of 296) available here.

Abstract

Albert Wendt is the most prolific and influential contemporary writer of the Pacific Islands - of his native Samoa in particular, but including greater Oceania and New Zealand as well. He has four books of verse, three collections of short stories, five novels (tow of them made into feature films) and three major anthologies of Pacific Literature to his name. There are, besides, playscripts, interviews and essays. While there have been several important figures in the promotion of creative writing from the region, it is Wendt who has consistently covered the widest range of activities, from teaching texts in school and reshaping university syllabuses, to running writing classes, publishing new writers, and providing international commentary on the dynamics of modern culture in the Pacific.

ANZSRC / FoR Code

2005 LITERARY STUDIES

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