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Text Two Hundred And Fifty Ways To Start An Essay About Captain Cook
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By Alice, Somerville
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No 29: With a Non-argument that's Actually an Argument. Captain Cook? It's all so very complex. I'm going to sit on the fence. (Whose fence? On whose land? Dividing what from what? You only have a fence when you fear something or when you're trying to keep something in. Or, as a ...renovation show on TV informed me, when you want to upgrade your street appeal.)
Alice Te Punga Somerville employs her deep research and dark humour to skilfully channel her response to Cook's global colonial legacy in this revealing and defi ant BWB Text.
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| ISBN |
9781988587745 |
| Published NZ |
23 Nov 2020 |
| Publisher |
Bridget Williams Books |
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Paperback |
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| Interest Age |
General Audience |
| Reading Age |
General Audience |
| Library of Congress |
Colonies |
| NBS Text |
Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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Author's Bio
Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Ati Awa, Taranaki) is a scholar, poet and irredentist. She is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Maori & Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato. Alice studied at the University of Auckland, earned a PhD at Cornell University, is a Fulbright scholar and Marsden recipient and has held academic appointments in New Zealand, Canada, Hawai'i and Australia. Her monograph Once Were Pacifi c: Maori connections to Oceania (Minnesota) won Best First Book
2012 from the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association. Alice researches and teaches Maori, Pacific and Indigenous texts in order to centre Indigenous expansiveness and de-centre colonialism.
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