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Author:   Farzana Gounder
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   21
ISBN:  

9789027268679

ISBN 10:   9027268673
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   15 May 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Editor's note; 2. Glossing abbreviations; 3. About the authors; 4. Introduction; 5. Inside the storyworld; 6. Moving through space and (not?) time: North Australian dreamtime narratives (by Hoffmann, Dorothea); 7. We've never seen a cyclone like this: Exploring self-concept and narrator characterisation in Aulua (by Paviour-Smith, Martin); 8. Telling narratives, constructing identities; 9. Local ecological knowledge in Mortlockese narrative: Stance, identity and knowing (by Odango, Emerson Lopez); 10. Small stories and associated identities in Neverver (by Barbour, Julie); 11. 'Sometime is lies': Narrative and identity in two mixed-origin island languages (by Hendery, Rachel); 12. Narrative memories, cultures and identities; 13. Constructing Kanaka Maoli identity through narrative: A glimpse into native Hawaiian narratives (by Baker, Christopher K.); 14. 'Stories of long ago' and the forces of modernity in South Pentecost (by Garde, Murray); 15. Australian South Sea Islanders' narratives of belonging (by Moore, Clive); 16. Avatars of Fiji's Girmit narrative (by Lal, Brij V.); 17. Samoan narratives: Sociocultural perspectives (by Kruse Va'ai, Emma); 18. [P]ulling tomorrow's sky from [the] kete : Culture-specific narrative representations of re/membering in contemporary Maori and first Australian novels (by Birk, Hanne); 19. Beyond exile: The Ramayana as a living narrative among Indo-Fijians in Fiji and New Zealand (by Miller, Kevin C.); 20. Embodied silent narratives of masculinities: Some perspectives from Guam Chamorros (by de Frutos, David A.); 21. Index

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