Fast Talking PI reflects the poet''s focus on issues affecting Pacific communities in New Zealand, and indigenous peoples around the world including the challenges and triumphs of being afakasi [mixed race]. The book is structured in three sections, Tusitala (personal), Talkback (political and historical) and Fast Talking PIs (dialogue). She writes as a calabash breaker, smashing stereotypes and challenging historic injustices; also exploring the idea of the calabash as the honoured vessel for identity and story. Her aesthetics and indigenous politics meld marvellously together
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Format: Hardback
Dimensions: 138 x 215mm
Publication Date: 25 Jun 2012
Publisher: Arc Publications
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781904614777
About Selina Tusitala Marsh
Selina Tusitala Marsh is of Samoan Tuvaluan English Scottish and French descent and was the first Pacific Islander to graduate from The University of Auckland with a PhD in English where she is now a lecturer. Her work has been widely published and has appeared in a range of online and hardcopy literary journals and anthologies including Blackmail Press Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English-Whetu Moana II (Auckland University Press/UHP) Best New Zealand Poems 2006 Niu Voices: Contemporary Pacific Fiction 1 and The Contemporary Pacific (UHP). She established and coordinates Pasifika Poetry an online hub celebrating the poetry of tagata o te moana nui the peoples of the Pacific; and is also the co-Chair of the South Pacific Association of Language and Literature.
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