Nuanua : Pacific Writings in English since 1980
, by Wendt, Albert- ISBN: 9780824817312 | 0824817311
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/1/1995
Acknowledgements | |
General Editor's Note | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
from The Frigate Bird | p. 10 |
The Dark Lord of Savaiki | p. 19 |
from Soul Traps | p. 24 |
From Vaka | p. 27 |
The Bed | p. 43 |
Saved | p. 48 |
Sixteen Bags | p. 49 |
Taunga of the Great Moko | p. 49 |
Darkness within the Light | p. 50 |
A Book and a Pen | p. 52 |
Boat Girl | p. 53 |
Return the Noonday Star | p. 57 |
To God | p. 59 |
Storyteller | p. 59 |
Grandmother and the Mat | p. 60 |
I Remember, I Remember | p. 64 |
The Unfinished Fence | p. 70 |
Invitation | p. 73 |
Laucala Bay | p. 74 |
Reflections on a Night Out in Town | p. 76 |
In Nadi | p. 79 |
Confessions of a Would-be Brahmin | p. 80 |
Beachcombers | p. 81 |
Elegy: Dr Timoci Bavadra | p. 82 |
Detainee II | p. 84 |
from The Wounded Sea | p. 85 |
Siddarth | p. 99 |
Ballet for a Sea-bird | p. 101 |
An Act of Love | p. 103 |
Pigeon Park | p. 110 |
Sione, God and a Railway Station | p. 111 |
From Tiata and Liz | p. 112 |
Tell Me Where the Train Goes | p. 113 |
Onisimo | p. 120 |
Abatekan | p. 124 |
Beia and Ioane | p. 139 |
from The Shark that Ate the Sun | p. 166 |
Mass Media, Mass Mania | p. 178 |
Moon | p. 179 |
from Sail the Midnight Sun | p. 180 |
from My Mother Calls Me Yaltep | p. 200 |
The Expatriate | p. 210 |
Caught Up | p. 211 |
We Are Tukes | p. 212 |
The Frost | p. 218 |
from Maiba | p. 226 |
from Naked Thoughts | p. 231 |
Looking Thru Those Eyeholes | p. 233 |
Kuburabasu | p. 234 |
The Song of the Rower | p. 235 |
Kum Koimb | p. 237 |
Dancing Yet to the Dim Dim's Beat | p. 246 |
Speak Up | p. 247 |
The Dancer | p. 248 |
The Mother and Child | p. 248 |
Nuigo Market | p. 249 |
Different Histories | p. 249 |
The Married Couple | p. 252 |
Ghosting | p. 259 |
Funeral in Savai'i | p. 263 |
The Olomatua | p. 267 |
Rain | p. 273 |
Night | p. 273 |
from Midnight Sonnets | p. 274 |
Christmas in Samoa, 1978 | p. 276 |
Poems in the Rain | p. 277 |
Freedom Day | p. 277 |
Papeete by Night | p. 279 |
Island | p. 280 |
Violent Storm | p. 280 |
Birthday Present | p. 281 |
Of Butterflies and Bubbles | p. 281 |
Peace | p. 283 |
In Life | p. 283 |
What Are We? | p. 284 |
Birdcall I | p. 285 |
Poem to My Father | p. 285 |
Taumeasina | p. 285 |
Ianeta's Dance | p. 287 |
War News | p. 287 |
Polynesian Old Man | p. 289 |
Crucifixion on Sunday | p. 289 |
Ta Tatau | p. 291 |
Song of Discovery | p. 295 |
I Thought of You | p. 296 |
At Claire's Place | p. 297 |
Solaua, a Secret Embryo | p. 298 |
My House Idea | p. 298 |
My Guest | p. 299 |
Nostalgia | p. 300 |
Who Is Lili Tunu? | p. 300 |
I Will Be Our Saviour from the Bad Smell | p. 302 |
Parents and Children | p. 322 |
Knife | p. 322 |
Shaman of Visions | p. 324 |
The Wall | p. 324 |
In Your Enigma | p. 327 |
The Parrot | p. 330 |
Cars You Have My Wantoks | p. 331 |
Women and Housework | p. 331 |
Where Leaves Had Fallen | p. 333 |
The Toothpick | p. 334 |
Culture Shock | p. 334 |
My Gods | p. 335 |
An Unexpected Gift | p. 336 |
Civilised Girl | p. 341 |
A Man's World | p. 341 |
Roviana Girl | p. 342 |
Raraifilu | p. 343 |
from The Alternative | p. 350 |
Point of No Return | p. 362 |
from Kisses in the Nederends | p. 368 |
To the Last Viking of the Sunrise | p. 382 |
No More Guava | p. 383 |
Langakali | p. 383 |
Sunday Sadness | p. 386 |
Custom | p. 390 |
Neo-Colonialism | p. 391 |
Status Costs | p. 392 |
Ni-Vanuatu Women in Development | p. 394 |
Peripheral Politicians | p. 395 |
Island Chant | p. 395 |
Contributors | p. 397 |
Glossary | p. 403 |
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