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Where We Once Belonged
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Sia Figiel · Kaya/Muae · 1999 · Book

Thirteen-year-old Alofa Filiga struggles to come to terms with womanhood, her search for identity, and the restrictions of life in her Samoan village.

Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific
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Vilsoni Hereniko, Rob Wilson · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers · 1999 · Book

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...

Leaves of the Banyan Tree
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Albert Wendt · University of Hawaii Press · 1994 · Book

An epic spanning three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa, exploring on a grand scale such universal themes as greed, corruption, colonialism, exploitation, and revenge. Winner of the 1980 New Zealand Wattie Book of...

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