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A Vagabond in Fiji

Author: Harry La Tourette Foster
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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A Vagabond's Odyssey

Author: Arnold Safroni-Middleton
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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The Fijian Colonial Experience

Author: Timothy J. MacNaught
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1921934360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Indigenous Fijians were singularly fortunate in having a colonial administration that halted the alienation of communally owned land to foreign settlers and that, almost for a century, administered their affairs in their own language and through culturally congenial authority structures and institutions. From the outset, the Fijian Administration was criticised as paternalistic and stifling of individualism. But for all its problems it sustained, at least until World War II, a vigorously autonomous and peaceful social and political world in quite affluent subsistence — underpinning the celebrated exuberance of the culture exploited by the travel industry ever since.

Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature

Author: Vijay Mishra
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1839990716
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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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.

The Bookman's Manual

Author: Bessie Graham
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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Ma'afu, Prince of Tonga, Chief of Fiji

Author: John Spurway
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1925021181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 735

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Enele Ma`afu, son of Aleamotu`a, Tu`i Kanokupolu, grew up during a time of unprecedented social and political change in Tonga following the advent of Christianity. Moving to Lau, Fiji, in 1847 when he was about 21, he skilfully exploited kinship links to establish a power base there and in eastern Cakaudrove. His achievements were recognised in 1853 when his cousin King Tupou I appointed Ma`afu as Governor of the Tongans in Fiji. Acting as a putative champion of the lotu, Ma`afu undertook successful military campaigns elsewhere in Fiji and, after adding the Yasayasa Moala and the Exploring Isles to the nascent Lauan state, he was able to establish the Tovata ko Lau, a union of Lau, Cakaudrove and Bua, with himself as head. His power was formally recognised in 1869 when the Lauan chiefs appointed him as Tui Lau, a new title in the polity of Fiji. Ma`afu was now able to challenge Cakobau for the mastery of Fiji. After serving as Viceroy during the farcical planter oligarchy known as the Kingdom of Fiji, Ma`afu underwent a severe humiliation when, in order to maintain his power in Lau, he was forced to accede to the wishes of Fiji’s other great chiefs in offering their islands to Great Britain. He would end his days as Roko Tui Lau, a ‘subordinate administrator’ in the Crown Colony of Fiji, presiding over a province characterised by corruption and maladministration but where the legacy of his earlier innovative land reforms has endured.

A Vagabond in Fiji

A Vagabond's Odyssey

The Fijian Colonial Experience

Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature

The Bookman's Manual

Ma'afu, Prince of Tonga, Chief of Fiji

News Notes of California Libraries

The Literature of the Indian Diaspora

Forum and Column Review

Monthly Bulletin