The Birth And Death Of The Miracle Man And Other Stories
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The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man and Other Stories
Author | : Albert Wendt |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Islands of the Pacific |
ISBN | : OCLC:925847977 |
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This remarkable collection of stories offers a portrait of the fascinating and complex world of Samoa. There is Salepa, down on his luck but determined to use his one talent on the reluctant inhabitants of a nearby town; Fiasola, who feels that the Miracle Man is being born inside him; the young man who disgraces his family by stabbing a European nun; and Gabriel who, on the death of his father, relives his family's tragic past. A gifted and original writer, Albert Wendt has created a world rich in imagination and dreams, reflecting the common experience of people everywhere.
The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man
Author | : Albert Wendt |
Publsiher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Islands of the Pacific |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105040333390 |
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"Salepa, deserted by hsi wife and children, out of money and luck, is determined to use his one talent on the unfortunate inhabitants of the nearby town; Fiasola, a respected head teacher, who, in his forty-ninth year, feels the Miracle Man is being born and God has deserted him; Gabriel, now middle-aged, going through his dead father's papers, with his son, conjuring up the tragic history of his family ; and the self-styled Saviour who is obsessed with ridding his village of the Bad Smell - these are some of the ... characters who people Albert Wendt's new collection of short stories about his native Samoa. ..."--Jacket.
The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man and Other Stories
Author | : Albert Wendt |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1999-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0824818229 |
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This remarkable collection of stories offers a portrait of the fascinating and complex world of Samoa. There is Salepa, down on his luck but determined to use his one talent on the reluctant inhabitants of a nearby town; Fiasola, who feels that the Miracle Man is being born inside him; the young man who disgraces his family by stabbing a European nun; and Gabriel who, on the death of his father, relives his family's tragic past. A gifted and original writer, Albert Wendt has created a world rich in imagination and dreams, reflecting the common experience of people everywhere.
Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature
Author | : Paul Sharrad |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2003-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0719059429 |
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Albert Wendt is the leading writer and exponent of Pacific literature. His work is consistently different in style, politically challenging, and ranges across essays, plays, poems, stories and novels, two of which have been filmed. This book is the first full-length study of his work. There is an introduction to Pacific literature as a whole and Wendt's Samoan background. Chapters offer readings of all Wendt's major texts in chronological sequence, relating them to his essays, to literary movements of the time and to key motifs from Polynesian culture. There is an extensive bibliography of works by and about Wendt.
The Best of Albert Wendt s Short Stories
Author | : Albert Wendt |
Publsiher | : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781869799847 |
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A collection of classic short stories from the award-winning author, Albert Wendt, acknowledged as one of the Pacific's major writers. Albert Wendt's short stories, providing a complex and profound understanding of people and the world, have been read and praised in New Zealand, the Pacific and internationally. This collection brings together his classic stories published in the Flying-Fox in a Freedom Tree and the Birth and Death of the Miracle Man and Other Stories together with exciting, previously uncollected work. '. . . his stories have the tone of timeles, and very savvy, fables.' - New York Times 'A writer of international importance.' - Landfall
Breaking Connections
Author | : Albert Wendt |
Publsiher | : Huia Publishers |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2015-11-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781775502678 |
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A dynamic group has emerged in Auckland whose members refer to themselves as the Tribe. Mainly Polynesian, they grow up together, rise from poverty and become successful professionals, bound by love and fierce loyalty. At the centre, is Aaron, who lives at the edge of danger, shady dealings and self-destruction. When Daniel, receives a call in Hawaii telling him that Aaron has been killed, he returns to New Zealand, and steps into the most dangerous crisis the Tribe has faced. They must confront the truth about who Aaron is and what they, as the Tribe, have become, while facing the infidelity and greed that threatens to tear the group apart.
The Smell of Risk
Author | : Hsuan L. Hsu |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781479807215 |
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A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatility, and materiality. But it is these very qualities that make olfaction a vital tool for sensing and staging environmental risk and inequality. Unlike the other senses, smell extends across space and reaches into our bodies. Hsu traces how writers, artists, and activists have deployed these embodied, biochemical qualities of smell in their efforts to critique and reshape modernity’s olfactory disparities. The Smell of Risk outlines the many ways that our differentiated atmospheres unevenly distribute environmental risk. Reading everything from nineteenth-century detective fiction and naturalist novels to contemporary performance art and memoir, Hsu takes up modernity’s differentiated atmospheres as a subject worth sniffing out. From the industrial revolution to current-day environmental crises, Hsu uses ecocriticism, geography, and critical race studies to, for example, explore Latinx communities exposed to freeway exhaust and pesticides, Asian diasporic artists’ response to racialized discourse about Asiatic odors, and the devastation settler colonialism has reaped on Indigenous smellscapes. In each instance, Hsu demonstrates the violence that air maintenance, control, and conditioning enacts on the poor and the marginalized. From nineteenth-century miasma theory theory to the synthetic chemicals that pervade twenty-first century air, Hsu takes smell at face value to offer an evocative retelling of urbanization, public health, and environmental violence.
Taking Stock
Author | : Jürgen Kramer |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : 9783823366218 |
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