Fiji Maa Mother Of A Thousand
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Fiji Maa
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Author : Subramani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Fiji Maa written by Subramani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Fiji Maa : Mother of Thousand is written from the point of view of women and has an array of female characters with the main character being a beggar woman who sits in front of Westpac Bank watching and observing everyone and everything going on around her - the political and personal intrigues of which she knows all about. Her friendship with an iTaukei woman is at the heart of this story.
Fiji Maa Mother Of A Thousand
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Author : Professor Subramani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-01-27
Fiji Maa Mother Of A Thousand written by Professor Subramani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-27 with categories.
Fiji Maa, written in Fiji Hindi and Devanagari Script, depicts the life story of the main character, Ved Mati, as she passes from childhood innocence towards final detachment through the journey of her life amid the changing backdrop of the socio/political landscape of Fiji. The story is set in Labasa and Suva and follows the life of the main character as she grows from a little girl into adulthood. Her carefree childhood and school life is portrayed so well by Professor Subramani. Her role as a goat herder and a sprinter shows the research capability of the writer. Also the almost destitute living in the Estate in Suva is so accurately described.
Subaltern Narratives In Fiji Hindi Literature
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Author : Vijay Mishra
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2024-02-13
Subaltern Narratives In Fiji Hindi Literature written by Vijay Mishra and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature is the first comprehensive study of fiction written in Fiji Hindi that moves beyond the hegemonic and colonially-implicated perspectives that have necessarily informed top-down historical accounts. Mishra makes this case using two extraordinary novels Ḍaukā Purān [‘A Subaltern Tale’] (2001]) and Fiji Maa [‘Mother of a Thousand’] (2018) by the Fiji Indian writer Subramani. They are massive novels (respectively 500 and 1,000 pages long) written in the devanāgarī (Sanskrit) script. They are examples of subaltern writing that do not exist, as a legitimation of the subaltern voice, anywhere else in the world. The novels constitute the silent underside of world literature, whose canon they silently challenge. For postcolonial, diaspora and subaltern scholars, they are defining (indeed definitive) texts without which their theories remain incomplete. Theories require mastery of primary texts and these subaltern novels, ‘heroic’ compositions as they are in the vernacular, offer a challenge to the theorist.
A Mission Divided
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Author : Dr Kirstie Close-Barry
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2015-12-02
A Mission Divided written by Dr Kirstie Close-Barry and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-02 with History categories.
This book provides insight into the long process of decolonisation within the Methodist Overseas Missions of Australasia, a colonial institution that operated in the British colony of Fiji. The mission was a site of work for Europeans, Fijians and Indo-Fijians, but each community operated separately, as the mission was divided along ethnic lines in 1901. This book outlines the colonial concepts of race and culture, as well as antagonism over land and labour, that were used to justify this separation. Recounting the stories told by the mission’s leadership, including missionaries and ministers, to its grassroots membership, this book draws on archival and ethnographic research to reveal the emergence of ethno-nationalisms in Fiji, the legacies of which are still being managed in the post-colonial state today. ‘Analysing in part the story of her own ancestors, Kirstie Barry develops a fascinating account of the relationship between Christian proselytization and Pacific nationalism, showing how missionaries reinforced racial divisions between Fijian and Indo-Fijian even as they deplored them. Negotiating the intersections between evangelisation, anthropology and colonial governance, this is a book with resonance well beyond its Fijian setting.’ – Professor Alan Lester, University of Sussex ‘This thoroughly researched and finely crafted book unwraps and finely illustrates the interwoven layers of evolving complexity in different interpretations of ideals and debates on race, culture, colonialism and independence that informed the way the Methodist Mission was run in Fiji. It describes the human personalities and practicalities, interconnected at local, regional and global levels, which influenced the shaping of the Mission and the independent Methodist Church in Fiji. It documents the influence of evolving anthropological theories and ecumenical theological understandings of culture on mission practice. The book’s rich sources enhance our understanding of the complex history of ethnic relations in Fiji, helping to explain why ethnic divisive thinking remains a challenge.’– Jacqueline Ryle, University of the South Pacific ‘A beautifully researched study of the transnational impact of South Asian bodies on nationalisms and church devolution in Fiji, and an important resource for empire studies as a whole.’ – Professor Jane Samson, University of Alberta, Canada
Leaving India
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Author : Minal Hajratwala
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2009-03-18
Leaving India written by Minal Hajratwala and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The PEN Award–winning chronicle of the Indian diaspora told through the stories of the author’s own family. In this “rich, entertaining and illuminating story,” Minal Hajratwala mixes history, memoir, and reportage to explore the collisions of choice and history that led her family to emigrate from India (San Francisco Chronicle). “Meticulously researched and evocatively written” (The Washington Post), Leaving India looks for answers to the eternal questions that faced not only Hajratwala’s own Indian family but all immigrants, everywhere: Where did we come from? Why did we leave? What did we give up and gain in the process? Beginning with her great-grandfather Motiram’s original flight from British-occupied India to Fiji, where he rose from tailor to department store mogul, Hajratwala follows her ancestors across the twentieth-century to explain how they came to be spread across five continents and nine countries. As she delves into the relationship between personal choice and the great historical forces—British colonialism, apartheid, Gandhi’s salt march, and American immigration policy—that helped shape her family’s experiences, Hajratwala brings to light for the very first time the story of the Indian diaspora. A luminous narrative from “a fine daughter of the continent, bringing insight, intelligence and compassion to the lives and sojourns of her far-flung kin,” Leaving India offers a deeply intimate look at what it means to call more than one part of the world home (Alice Walker).
A Grammar Of Boumaa Fijian
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Author : R. M. W. Dixon
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1988
A Grammar Of Boumaa Fijian written by R. M. W. Dixon and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The people who live in the Boumaa region of the Fijian island of Taveuni speak a dialect of Fijian that is mutually intelligible with Standard Fijian, the two differing as much perhaps as do the American and British varieties of English. During 1985, R. M. W. Dixon—one of the most insightful of linguists engaged in descriptive studies today—lived in the village of Waitabu and studied the language spoken there. He found in Boumaa Fijian a wealth of striking features unknown in commonly studied languages and on the basis of his fieldwork prepared this grammar. Fijian is an agglutinating language, one in which words are formed by the profligate combining of morphemes. There are no case inflections, and tense and aspect as shown by independent clitics or words within a predicate complex. Most verbs come in both transitive and intransitive forms, and nouns can be build up regularly from verbal parts and verbs from nouns. The language is also marked by a highly developed pronoun system and by a vocabulary rich in areas of social significance. In the opening chapters, Dixon describes the Islands' political, social, and linguistic organization, outlines the main points of Fijian phonology, and presents an overview of the grammar. In succeeding chapters, he examines a number of grammatical topics in greater detail, including clause and phrase structure, verbal syntax, deictics, and anaphora. The volume also includes a full vocabulary of all forms treated in discussion and three of the fifteen texts recorded from monolingual village elders on which the grammar is based.
This Is Not A Grass Skirt
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Author : Karen Jacobs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
This Is Not A Grass Skirt written by Karen Jacobs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Skirts categories.
This study focuses on fibre skirts (liku) and associated tattooing (veiqia) worn by indigenous Fijian women in the nineteenth century, highlighting the link between clothing and the adorned human body and the ongoing relevance of museum collections and archives.
Speight Of Violence
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Author : Michael Field
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2005
Speight Of Violence written by Michael Field and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
"In May 2000 a gang of soldiers and failed politicians, with George Speight at their head, burst into Fiji's Parliament and captured the nation's government led by its first Indo-Fijian prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry. As the politicians were seized, hundreds of rebels ransacked Fiji's capital Suva." "This was supposed to be a coup by indigenous Fijians angry at their loss of power. But as the drama unfolded and Speight's rebels continued to hold the politicians hostage, the spectacle turned into a power struggle pitting Fijians against each other. This climaxed in a violent military mutiny." "Speight of Violence offers an insiders' view of what happened. Extracts from a secret diary kept by Deputy Prime Minister Tupeni Baba during his 56 days in captivity tell of Speight's behaviour, the conditions inside Parliament, and the beating of Chaudhry; and Red Cross letters between Tupeni and his partner Unaisi Nabobo-Baba reveal the distress and deprivations suffered by the hostages' families. Veteran Pacific reporter Michael Field, who covered the coup and the treason trials which followed, reports the barricade, court and media dramas and offers a powerful analysis of what it all meant."--BOOK JACKET.
Samoa A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before
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Author : George Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
Samoa A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before written by George Turner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Islands of the Pacific categories.
Easwaramma
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Author : N. Kasturi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Easwaramma written by N. Kasturi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.