By Alice Te Punga Somerville
Native identification is mostly linked to a selected position. yet what if that position is the sea? Once have been Pacific explores this query because it considers how Māori and different Pacific peoples body their connection to the sea, to New Zealand, and to one another via quite a few inventive works. Māori student Alice Te Punga Somerville indicates how and while Māori and different Pacific peoples articulate their ancestral historical past as migratory seafarers, drawing their id not just from land but additionally from water.
Although Māori are ethnically Polynesian, and Aotearoa New Zealand is obviously part of the Pacific sector, in New Zealand the phrases “Māori” and “Pacific” are colloquially utilized to 2 unique groups: Māori are Indigenous, and “Pacific” refers to migrant groups from in different places within the quarter. Asking how this contrast may perhaps blur ancient and modern connections, Te Punga Somerville interrogates the connection among indigeneity, migration, and diaspora, targeting texts: poetry, fiction, theater, movie, and track, considered along old circumstances of functionality, journalism, and scholarship.
In this sustained therapy of the Māori diaspora, Te Punga Somerville presents the 1st severe research of relationships among Indigenous and migrant groups in New Zealand.
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