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Vilsoni Hereniko S ubramani is professor of literature at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. His book, South Pacific Literature: From Myth to Fabulation is the first critical study of the origins and growth of literature in the Pacific Islands. The Fantasy Eaters, a book of fiction, and Altering Imagination, inspired by the military coups in Fiji in 1987, as well as The Indo-Fijian Experience and After Narrative: The Pursuit of Reality and Fiction, both edited volumes, have made Subramani's voice one of Fiji's most eloquent and insightful. The interview presented here was recorded at the University of the South Pacific a few days after Subramani had given the keynote address at the SPACLA L S conference held on 15 July 1999. He was chosen to be interviewed for because of a novel he had written in Fiji Hindi. The journal's editors were curious about the motivations behind Subramani's choice of language, knowing that in the past he had written solely in English. Was he, like Ngugi Wa Thiong`o, trying to make a statement about the importance of the vernacular languages, or perhaps suggesting that Pacific writers should shun the use of English, the colonizer's language?
The Contemporary Pacific – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Jan 1, 2001
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