Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised - Paperback
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butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,
gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . "Always italicise foreign words," a friend of the author was advised. In her first book of poetry, Māori scholar and poet Alice Te Punga Somerville does just that. In wit and anger, sadness and aroha, she reflects on "how to write while colonised"--how to write in English as a Māori writer; how to trace links between Aotearoa and wider Pacific, Indigenous and colonial worlds; how to be the only Māori person in a workplace; and how--and why--to do the mahi anyway. I wanted to pick up baby, and I wanted to pick a fight:
The eternal Waitangi Day dilemma.
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised - Paperback
$19.42
by Alice Te Punga Somerville (Author)
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville.
Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,
gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . "Always italicise foreign words," a friend of the author was advised. In her first book of poetry, Māori scholar and poet Alice Te Punga Somerville does just that. In wit and anger, sadness and aroha, she reflects on "how to write while colonised"--how to write in English as a Māori writer; how to trace links between Aotearoa and wider Pacific, Indigenous and colonial worlds; how to be the only Māori person in a workplace; and how--and why--to do the mahi anyway. I wanted to pick up baby, and I wanted to pick a fight:
The eternal Waitangi Day dilemma.
Author Biography
Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Āti Awa) is a scholar, poet, and irredentist. She researches and teaches Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous texts in order to center Indigenous expansiveness and de-center colonialism. Te Punga Somerville currently is professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining UBC in 2021, she taught Māori and Indigenous studies at the University of Waikato and has held academic positions in Australia, Hawai'i, and elsewhere in New Zealand. Her first book, Once Were Pacific: Māori Connections to Oceania (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), won Best First Book from the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association. Her thought-provoking second book is Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook (Bridget Williams Books, 2020).
Number of Pages: 88
Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.4 x 6.1 IN
Publication Date: December 31, 2023
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