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Oceanic literature

  • In Oceanic literature: Later writings

    In Wendt’s novella Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree (1974), the protagonist-narrator explains that he has “decided to become the second Robert Louis Stevenson, a tusitala or teller of tales, but with a big difference. I want to write a novel about me.” Similarly, Epeli Hau’ofa of Tonga,…

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