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2 quotes from Albert Wendt: 'Up to a few years ago nearly all the literature about Oceania was written by papalagi and other outsiders. Our islands were and still are a goldmine for romantic novelists and filmmakers, bar-room journalists and semi-literate tourists, sociologists and Ph.D. students, remittance men and sailing evangelists, UNO ...
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Albert Wendt — ‘Up to a few years ago nearly all the...
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Albert Tuaopepe Wendt ONZ CNZM (born 27 October 1939) is a Samoan poet and writer who lives in New Zealand. He is one of the most influential writers in Oceania. His notable works include Sons for the Return Home, published in 1973 (adapted into a feature film in 1979), and Leaves of the Banyan Tree, published in 1979.
Born in Apia, Western Samoa, Albert Wendt has published a huge range of fiction and poetry, as well as theoretical writing. He is internationally recognised as a leader of developments in New Zealand and Pacific literature.
“I’m now the angry old man!” he says, with a bark of laughter. “Actually, I’m no longer that angry. What middle-class society does is make us self-satisfied and accept things we...
Albert Wendt is a Samoan poet, novelist, playwright, artist, scholar, and educator. He has published more than a dozen novels and short story collections that explore many different themes in genres. He edited several anthologies of Pacific literature, including Lali (1980) and Nuanua (1995) and…
Jan 1, 1979 · Albert Wendt. 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.
Jun 10, 2019 · Albert Wendt — ‘Up to a few years ago nearly all the literature about Oceania was written by papalagi and other outsiders. Our islands were and still are...
