Island of Shattered DreamsHuia, 2007 - 163 pages Finally in English, Island of Shattered Dreams is the first ever novel by an indigenous Tahitian writer. In a lyrical and immensely moving style, this book combines a family saga and a doomed love story, set against the background of French Polynesia in the period leading up to the first nuclear tests. The text is highly critical of the French government, and as a result its publication in Tahiti was polarising. |
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... language of her schooling , the language of the colonial power , Spitz finds herself in a position all too familiar to indigenous peoples the world over . Her solution is to radically 1 Translator's Note: ...
... language of her schooling , the language of the colonial power , Spitz finds herself in a position all too familiar to indigenous peoples the world over . Her solution is to radically 1 Translator's Note: ...
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... language and target culture and language . I have opted here to leave many cultural references unchanged , in particular the use of the term ' belly ' or ' ventre ' , as the seat of the emotions . This could have been ' anglicised ...
... language and target culture and language . I have opted here to leave many cultural references unchanged , in particular the use of the term ' belly ' or ' ventre ' , as the seat of the emotions . This could have been ' anglicised ...
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... language that he uses nevertheless with his mother , and that he speaks flawlessly , the one that opens a strange and foreign universe to him , completely unconnected to the reality of his everyday life . The culture of the language of ...
... language that he uses nevertheless with his mother , and that he speaks flawlessly , the one that opens a strange and foreign universe to him , completely unconnected to the reality of his everyday life . The culture of the language of ...
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Section 3 | 23 |
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