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An 11 page research paper that examines Sia Figiel's Where We Once Belonged and Albert Wendt's Pouliuli. The writer argues that the location of Samoa plays an integral role in each of these novels. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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May, 2000 ? properly! In Sia Figiels Where We Once Belonged and Albert Wendts Pouliuli, these two native
Samoan authors create narratives in which their homeland, its culture, language and mores, form an integral! part of the books overall structure. The storyline in each of these books is
vastly different: Figiels book is a coming of age story featuring thirteen-year-old Alofa Filiga. Wendts book, on the other hand, concerns seventy-six-year-old Faleasa Osovae, the titled head of
the Aiga Faleasa. However, in each of these works, the location of the story?the island of the Samoa?provides the boundaries in which the narrative exists. In each, Samoan customs
, poetry, drams, genealogies, chants, folktales and songs are woven in the patterns of "suifefiloi," which is the Samoan form of storytelling, which translates as "sewing or quilting with words"
(Ellis 875). The following analysis of each of these works will demonstrate how each author created his or her book by utilizing the rich heritage of the Samoan culture, interweaving
details of the Samoan landscape into the narrative to make Samoa as much a part of the story as any of the characters. !Sia Figiels Where We Once Belonged
Figiels Samoa is a vibrant, animate place where "sharks bite the moon, and a pumpkin might as easily be the sun suspended in the sky as one sold in Apias
market" (Ellis 875). Nevertheless, the Samoa pictured by Figiel is not idealized. This narrative offers an unflinching account that encompasses material and cultural violence in contemporary Samoa, where women?in particular?face
mens fists and the pressures imposed by other women (Ellis 875). Figiels book is not plot driven. Instead, the reader hears the voice of Alofa, a mildly rebellious teen
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