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Literature
of Oceania
Spring 2000
Dr. Juniper Ellis
English Department
Loyola College in Maryland
Baltimore MD 21210
410-617-5492
JEllis@loyola.edu
Required Texts:
Reserve readings in
library, and:
Nora Vagi Brash, Which
Way, Big Man?
Sia Figiel, They Who Do
Not Grieve
Johnny (Florence) Frisbie, Miss
Ulysses of Puka-Puka
Patricia Grace, Potiki
Leo Hannet, The
Ungrateful Daughter
Vilsoni Hereniko and
Teresia Teaiwa, Last Virgin in Paradise
Epeli Hau'ofa, Tales of
the Tikongs
John Kneubuhl, Think of
a Garden
Grace Mera Molisa, Black
Stone I, and Colonised People
John Pule, The Shark
That Ate the Sun
Konai Helu Thaman, Songs
of Love
Albert Wendt, Leaves of
the Banyan Tree
Proposed Schedule:
| Jan. |
18 |
Introduction |
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25 |
Johnny (Florence) Frisbie, Miss
Ulysses of Puka-Puka |
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Johnny Frisbie Hebenstreit,
"The Bed." Albert Wendt, ed. Nuanua.
Auckland: Auckland UP, 1995. |
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Albert Wendt,
"Introduction." Nuanua |
| Feb. |
1 |
Leo Hannet, The
Ungrateful Daughter (a play) |
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John Kasaipwalova,
"Betel Nut is Bad Magic for Airplanes." Rpt. in
Worlds of Fiction. Eds. Roberta Rubenstein and
Charles R. Larson. New York: Macmillan, 1993, |
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8 |
Wendt, Leaves of the
Banyan Tree |
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Wendt, "Towards a New
Oceania." Mana Review 1.1 (1976): 49-60. Rpt.
in Readings in Pacific Literature. Ed. Paul
Sharrad. Wollongong: U of Wollongong and New Literatures
Research Centre, 1993. |
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15 |
No class |
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22 |
Grace Mera Molisa, Black
Stone I, and Colonised People |
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29 |
Konai Helu Thaman, Songs
of Love |
| Spring Break |
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| Mar. |
14 |
Hau'ofa, Tales of the
Tikongs |
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Hau'ofa, "Our Sea of
Islands." A New Oceania. Eds. Eric Waddell,
Vijay Naidu, and Epeli Hau'ofa. Suva: U of South Pacific
P, 1993. Rpt. in The Contemporary Pacific 6.1
(1994) |
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21 |
Nora Vagi Brash, Which
Way, Big Man? |
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28 |
John Pule, The Shark That
Ate the Sun |
| Apr. |
4 |
Patricia Grace, Potiki |
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Patricia Grace, "Ngati
Kangaru." The Sky People. Auckland: Penguin,
1994. |
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Donna Awatere, Chapters 1
and 2 from Maori Sovereignty. Auckland:
Broadsheet, 1984. |
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11 |
Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia
Teaiwa, Last Virgin in Paradise |
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Hereniko,
"Representations of Cultural Identities." Tides
of History. Eds. K. R. Howe, et al. Honolulu: U of
Hawai'i P, 1994. |
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18 |
John Kneubuhl, Think of a
Garden |
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25 |
Sia Figiel, They Who Do
Not Grieve |
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Subramani,
"Interview." The Girl in the Moon Circle.
Figiel. Suva: Mana Publications, 1996. |
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Wendt, "Tatauing the
Post-Colonial Body." SPAN 42/43 (1996) |
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