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Lali: A Pacific Anthology
303 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
About the author
Albert Wendt
46 books56 followersAlbert Wendt was born in Apia, Samoa.
Wendt's epic Leaves of the Banyan Tree (1979) won the 1980 New Zealand Book Awards. He was appointed to the first chair in Pacific literature at the University of the South Pacific in Suva. In 1988 he took up a professorship of Pacific studies at the University of Auckland. In 1999 Wendt was visiting Professor of Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Hawaii. In 2001 he was made Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to literature. In the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours he was appointed a member of the Order of New Zealand.
Wendt's epic Leaves of the Banyan Tree (1979) won the 1980 New Zealand Book Awards. He was appointed to the first chair in Pacific literature at the University of the South Pacific in Suva. In 1988 he took up a professorship of Pacific studies at the University of Auckland. In 1999 Wendt was visiting Professor of Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Hawaii. In 2001 he was made Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to literature. In the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours he was appointed a member of the Order of New Zealand.
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January 2, 2018
I have no complaints about this anthology. It's a little uneven, but I think that's to be expected given the huge variation in population sizes and literacy rates among the countries included in it. Fiji and Samoa come off looking pretty good (and but for this anthology I found it almost impossible to get works by any Fijian women); even tiny Niue offers up a handful of decent poems.
I read this book over the course of about fifteen months, which makes it difficult for me to judge it as a whole. All I can say is that it's a decent survey of and introduction to Pacific literature in English, and if that sort of thing floats your va'a, then I would recommend it.
This review is part of a longer review and discussion of Oceanic literature published on my blog, Around the World in 2000 Books.
I read this book over the course of about fifteen months, which makes it difficult for me to judge it as a whole. All I can say is that it's a decent survey of and introduction to Pacific literature in English, and if that sort of thing floats your va'a, then I would recommend it.
This review is part of a longer review and discussion of Oceanic literature published on my blog, Around the World in 2000 Books.
Displaying 1 of 1 review