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Author Te Punga Somerville, Alice, author.

Title Once were Pacific : Māori connections to Oceania / Alice Te Punga Somerville
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 265 pages)
Contents Introduction: Māori and the Pacific -- Part I. Tapa : Aotearoa in the Pacific Region -- Māori People in Pacific Spaces -- Pacific-Based Māori Writers -- Aotearoa-Based Māori Writers -- The Realm of Tapa -- Part II. Koura : The Pacific in Aotearoa -- Māori/Pasifika Collaborations -- "It's like that with us Māoris" : Māori Write Connections -- Manuhiri, Fānau : Pasifika Write Connections -- When Romeo Met Tusi : Disconnections -- The Realm of Koura -- Conclusion: E Kore Au e Ngaro -- Epilogue: A Time and a Place
Summary Once Were Pacific considers how Maori and other Pacific peoples frame their connection to the ocean, to New Zealand, and to each other through various creative works. In this sustained treatment of the Maori diaspora, Maori scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville provides the first critical analysis of relationships between Indigenous and migrant communities in New Zealand
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), Best First Book, 2012
Subject Māori (New Zealand people) -- Ethnic identity
Indigenous peoples -- Oceania -- History
Māori (New Zealand people) -- Migrations -- History
Regionalism -- Oceania
Māori (New Zealand people) -- Intellectual life
New Zealand literature -- Māori authors -- History and criticism
HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Indigenous peoples
International relations
Māori (New Zealand people) -- Ethnic identity.
Māori (New Zealand people) -- Intellectual life.
New Zealand literature -- Māori authors.
Regionalism
SUBJECT Oceania -- Ethnic relations
Oceania -- Emigration and immigration -- History
New Zealand -- Relations -- Oceania
Oceania -- Relations -- New Zealand
Subject New Zealand
Oceania
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816677573
0816677573
9780816681501
0816681503
1299943535
9781299943537
9781452948003
1452948003