TY - JOUR
T1 - Not E-mailing Albert
T2 - A legacy of collection, connection, community
AU - Te Punga Somerville, A.
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - Albert Wendt's literary and critical legacy in the Pacific is well documented and loudly acknowledged; what is less widely recognized is his work as an anthologist. This article explores the impact of Wendt's literary collections, focusing on the extent to which the regional anthologies have produced not only a record of writing in the Pacific but also connections between writers. Unlike the regional and national anthologies of elsewhere, which perform the task of representing the canonical tip of a large body of work, anthologies in the Pacific have often had a different job. Pacific anthologies have become archives of writing, repositories of elsewhere unpublished texts, sites of contestation, and-perhaps most significantly- articulations of a region.
AB - Albert Wendt's literary and critical legacy in the Pacific is well documented and loudly acknowledged; what is less widely recognized is his work as an anthologist. This article explores the impact of Wendt's literary collections, focusing on the extent to which the regional anthologies have produced not only a record of writing in the Pacific but also connections between writers. Unlike the regional and national anthologies of elsewhere, which perform the task of representing the canonical tip of a large body of work, anthologies in the Pacific have often had a different job. Pacific anthologies have become archives of writing, repositories of elsewhere unpublished texts, sites of contestation, and-perhaps most significantly- articulations of a region.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77957922033
SN - 1043-898X
VL - 22
SP - 253
EP - 270
JO - The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs
JF - The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs
IS - 2
ER -