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'Comprising of more than twenty five percent of the world's known languages, the Pacific is considered to be the most linguistically diverse region in the world. What unifies the region is the culture of storytelling, which provides a fundamental means for perpetuating cultural knowledge across generations. The volume brings together linguists, literary theorists, anthropologists and historians to explore the Pacific peoples' constructions of identities through narrative. Chapters are organized under three themes: fine grained analysis at the storyworld level, the interactional context of narrative telling, and finally, the interconnections between narrative and cultural memory. The volume reflects the Pacific region's rich linguistic and cultural diversity, with discussions on the narrativization patterns in Australian and New Zealand English, Palmerston Island and Pitkern-Norfl'k English, Fiji Hindi, Hawaiian, Samoan, Solomon Island Pidgin, the Australian Aboriginal languages Jaminjung and Kriol, the Micronesian languages Mortlockese and Guam Chamorros, and the Vanuatuan languages Auluan, Neverver and Sa.' (Publication summary)
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Contents:
- 1. Editor's note, pix;
- 2. Glossing abbreviations, pxi;
- 3. About the authors, pxiii-xvii;
- 4. Introduction, p1-11;
- 5. The storyworld;
- 6. Moving through space and (not?) time: North Australian dreamtime narratives (by Hoffmann, Dorothea), p15-35;
- 7. We've never seen a cyclone like this: Exploring self-concept and narrator characterisation in Aulua (by Paviour-Smith, Martin), p37-58;
- 8. Telling narratives, constructing identities;
- 9. Local ecological knowledge in Mortlockese narrative: Stance, identity and knowing (by Odango, Emerson Lopez), p61-79;
- 10. Small stories and associated identities in Neverver (by Barbour, Julie), p81-100;
- 11. 'Sometime is lies': Narrative and identity in two mixed-origin island languages (by Hendery, Rachel), p101-113;
- 12. Narrative memories, cultures and identities;
- 13. Constructing Kanaka Maoli identity through narrative: A glimpse into native Hawaiian narratives and of Hawaiian-medium (by Baker, Christopher K.), p117-132; 14. 'Stories of long ago' and the forces of modernity in South Pentecost (by Garde, Murray), p133-151;
- 15. Australian South Sea Islanders' narratives of belonging (by Moore, Clive), p153-174;
- 16. Avatars of Fiji's Girmit narrative (by Lal, Brij V.), p175-189;
- 17. Samoan narratives: Sociocultural perspectives (by Kruse Va'ai, Emma), p191-205;
- 18. "[P]ulling tomorrow's sky from [the] kete": Culture-specific narrative representations of re/membering in contemporary Maori and first Australian novels (by Birk, Hanne), p207-221;
- 19. Beyond exile: The Ramayana as a living narrative among Indo-Fijians in Fiji and New Zealand (by Miller, Kevin C.), p223-239;
- 20. Embodied silent narratives of masculinities: Some perspectives from Guam Chamorros (by de Frutos, David A.), p241-256;
- 21. Index
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Contents indexed selectively.
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Moving through Space and (Not?) Time : North Australian Dreamtime Narratives,
single work
criticism
(p. 15–35)'This chapter is concerned with an analysis of narrative structure in the endangered non-Pama-Nyungan language Jaminjung and Australian Kriol. Previous analyses of Aboriginal narratives and story-telling techniques focused on the significance of place in plot and content (McGregor, 2005; Klapproth, 2004; Bavin, 2004). This study aims to extend these observations to include expressions of motion as a major structuring device in narratives. Furthermore, spatial may take precedence over temporal ordering of events in narrative. I argue that spatial narrative structuring is deeply rooted in cultural and environmental features creating a connection of unique identity for every ‘owner’ and audience of a story.' (Publication summary)
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Australian South Sea Islanders’ Narratives of Belonging,
single work
criticism
(p. 155–176)'This chapter examines how the narrative of ASSI identity has developed, as an Australian ethnic group, as Pacific Islanders who have reconnected with their islands of origin aver the last fifty years, and as part of a larger diaspora of indigenous peoples dislodged from their homes as part of labour migration related to nineteenth capitalism and forced labour migration. ASSI by-and-large interpret their history through a narrative of kidnapping and slavery which is at odds with Pacific historians who for the last fifty years have stressed Islander agency and voluntary participation in labour migration, albeit with an early phase of illegal and often violent recruitment. The specific points addressed in this chapter relate to origins, the difference of opinion with academic historians, semantic differences in the use of words, identity as both Australian and Pacific peoples, and contemporary political agendas.' (Publication summary)
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'[P]ulling Tomorrow's Sky from [the] Kete' : Culture-Specific Narrative Representations of Re/Membering in Contemporary Māori and First Australian Novels,
single work
criticism
(p. 209-223)'Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia constitute plural, heterogeneous and hybrid spaces, in which a multiplicity of Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures live together but are not treated equally. How can indigenous novels contribute to ensuing transcultural negotiations of competitive and synergetic processes of re/membering in “post”-colonial contexts? What roles do the texts play in the construction processes of different versions of the past and of cultural identities? Proposed answers rely on a cultural contextualization of “classic” categories of narratology: Indigenized methods of a “post”-colonial narratology are used to interpret culture-specific representations of cultural re/membering and to outline transcultural functional potentials of a contemporary Māori novel, Patricia Grace’s Potiki (1986), complemented by references to a First Australian text, Bruce Pascoe’s Earth (2001).' (Publication abstract)
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