Writing the New World
The podcast that shares research and ideas related to the research project 'Writing the New World: Indigenous texts 1900-1975' - led by Alice Te Punga Somerville and supported by the Marsden Fund. The podcast is co-produced and hosted by Wanda Ieremia-Allan. Sixteen Indigenous researchers have worked with Alice on this journey of connecting with the massive, multilingual and rich legacy of writing in the Pacific region. This podcast celebrates what can happen when we connect across generations, archives, disciplines, institutions, communities, experiences, and perspectives.
Writing the New World
7: A celebration of Tongan literature
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Alice Te Punga Somerville & Wanda Ieremia-Allan
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Season 1
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Episode 7
A celebration of Tongan Literature with Mele Latunipulu and (soon to be Dr) Elisapesi Hepi Havea, in which they discuss a twentieth first century (re)reading of Professor Konai Helu Thaman's 1974 classic poem 'You, the choice of my parents'. Given its resonance in Tonga and abroad during the peak of 1970s Feminist movement, what meanings are ascribed to it now? What does a re-reading of this poem provide a new audience?