Author: BENNETT, Bruce ed.
Title: A Sense of Exile: Essays in the Literature of the Asia-Pacific Region.
Description: The Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia, 1988. Paperback. Condition vg. A study that "analyzes the transformation of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context...showing how a small and isolated Polynesian community, with no access to print technology, can become deeply steeped in literacy in little more than a century, and how literacy can take on radically divergent forms depending on the social and cultural needs and characteristics of the society in which it develops". 244pp. ISBN 0-86422-072-3.

Keywords: literary literature history society historical criticism asia pacific