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Potiki (Paperback)
Patricia Grace
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'Provocative, compassionate and beautiful' - Joy Harjo, US Poet
Laureate A moving story of a Maori community's fight for survival,
from one of New Zealand's most prominent and celebrated authors On
the remote coast of New Zealand, at the curve that binds the land
and the sea, a small Maori community live, work, fish, play and
tell stories of their ancestors. But something is changing. The
prophet child toko can sense it. Men are coming, with dollars and
big plans to develop the area for tourism. As their ancestral land
becomes threatened, the people must unite in a battle for survival.
Weaving together myth and memory, Patricia Grace's prize-winning
novel is a spellbinding portrait of a defiant community determined
to protect their way of life at any cost.
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Potiki (Paperback)
Patricia Grace
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R641
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Winner of the 1987 New Zealand Fiction AwardThis compelling novel
will resonate for people everywhere who find their livelihood
threatened by ""Dollarmen"" - property speculators advocating golf
courses, high rises, shopping malls, and tourist attractions. In
'Potiki', one community's response to attacks on their ancestral
values and symbols provides moving affirmation of the relationship
between land the the people who live on it.
In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have
gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and
established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia,
Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. This book itself is an
ecological form with rhizomatic roots and blossoming branches.
Within these pages, the reader will encounter a wild garden of
genres, including poetry, chant, short fiction, novel excerpts,
creative nonfiction, visual texts, and even a dramatic play—all
written in multilingual offerings of English, Pacific languages,
pidgin, and translation. Seven main themes emerge: "Creation
Stories and Genealogies," "Ocean and Waterscapes," "Land and
Islands," "Flowers, Plants, and Trees," "Animals and
More-than-Human Species," "Climate Change," and "Environmental
Justice." This aesthetic diversity embodies the beautiful
bio-diversity of the Pacific itself. The urgent voices in this book
call us to attention—to action!—at a time of great need.
Pacific ecologies and the lives of Pacific Islanders are currently
under existential threat due to the legacy of environmental
imperialism and the ongoing impacts of climate change. While
Pacific writers celebrate the beauty and cultural symbolism of the
ocean, islands, trees, and flowers, they also bravely address the
frightening realities of rising sea levels, animal extinction,
nuclear radiation, military contamination, and pandemics.
Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures reminds us that we are
not alone; we are always in relation and always ecological. Humans,
other species, and nature are interrelated; land and water are
central concepts of identity and genealogy; and Earth is the sacred
source of all life, and thus should be treated with love and care.
With this book as a trusted companion, we are inspired and
empowered to reconnect with the world as we navigate towards a
precarious yet hopeful future.
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A Planet Called Imagine
N. A. Walker; Illustrated by Patricia Grace Claro
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R622
R517
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Now a feature film streaming on Netflix This is a stunning novel
about tradition and change, about whanau and its struggle to
survive, about the place of women in a shifting world.Makareta is
the chosen one--carrying her family's hopes. Missy is the
observer--the one who accepts but has her dreams. Mata is always
waiting--for life to happen as it stealthily passes by. Moving from
the forties to the present, from the country to the protests of the
cities, Cousins is the story of these three cousins. Thrown
together as children, they have subsequently grown apart, yet they
share a connection that can never be broken.
Mata, Makareta, and Missy, three Maori cousins, once shared a
magical childhood moment. They have since followed separate and
very different paths, yet their struggles offer insightful glimpses
into the lives of contemporary New Zealand women. Patricia Grace's
keen eye records the psychological, cultural, and political
circumstances that color and circumscribe their worlds in this
engaging, compassionate story.
In a time of dynamism and contradiction in Pacific cultural
production, a time of 'turning things over' and 'writing from the
inside out, ' this far-reaching volume provides a comprehensive set
of essays and interviews on the emergent literatures of the New
Pacific. With its dynamic combination of important position papers,
polemics, and decolonizing critiques by noted authors and of
analysis by new and established post-colonial scholars, this volume
exposes 'the maze and mix of literatures and cultural identities
breaking down and building up across the Pacific Ocean.' This
pioneering work will be the definitive resource for anyone
researching or teaching Pacific literature and will be invaluable
for bringing Pacific culture to readers outside the region
In this M?ori translation of the Kiriyama Prize Notable Book,
acclaimed M?ori novelist Patricia Grace visits the often terrifying
and complex world faced by men of the M?ori Battalion in Italy
during World War II.
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