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Islands of the Frigate Bird (review)

Islands of the Frigate Bird (review) book re v iews 299 Islands of the Frigate Bird, a novel by Daryl Tarte. Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1999. isbn 982– 02– 0147– 0, 206 pages. Paper, us$18. Islands of the Frigate Bird brings together Banaban, Gilbertese, Bikin - ian, and white colonial experiences of the twentieth century in a fictional tale of male travel and survival. Tarte sets up the story as a genealogy that links different characters and events, from the beginning of time, two and a half billion years ago, to the future 2234, and ultimately to a group of voyagers who sailed east from Southeast Asia and landed on Banaba “prehistori - cally.” What follows is a fragmented saga of colonization, mining, world war, nuclear testing, and the woes of • 300 the contemporary pacific sp r ing 2001 patrolling oceanic exclusive economic guns. The story was relevant and zones, all viewed briefly through the interesting for my own thesis work eyes of Islander and European male on Banaban and Gilbertese historical protagonists. It starts in the future experiences. It pays tribute to the lives with one particular descendant named of many central Pacific Islanders who Ion http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

Islands of the Frigate Bird (review)

Teaiwa, Katerina Martina.
The Contemporary Pacific , Volume 13 (1) – Jan 1, 2001
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book re v iews 299 Islands of the Frigate Bird, a novel by Daryl Tarte. Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1999. isbn 982– 02– 0147– 0, 206 pages. Paper, us$18. Islands of the Frigate Bird brings together Banaban, Gilbertese, Bikin - ian, and white colonial experiences of the twentieth century in a fictional tale of male travel and survival. Tarte sets up the story as a genealogy that links different characters and events, from the beginning of time, two and a half billion years ago, to the future 2234, and ultimately to a group of voyagers who sailed east from Southeast Asia and landed on Banaba “prehistori - cally.” What follows is a fragmented saga of colonization, mining, world war, nuclear testing, and the woes of • 300 the contemporary pacific sp r ing 2001 patrolling oceanic exclusive economic guns. The story was relevant and zones, all viewed briefly through the interesting for my own thesis work eyes of Islander and European male on Banaban and Gilbertese historical protagonists. It starts in the future experiences. It pays tribute to the lives with one particular descendant named of many central Pacific Islanders who Ion

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Published: Jan 1, 2001

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