The Samoan Sisyphus: Camus and colonialism in Albert Wendt's leaves of the banyan tree

Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 49-64

  Keown, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60950643845     PISSN: 00219894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002198940203700104     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Albert Wendt, Leaves of the Banyan Tree Auckland: Longman Paul, 1979. Subsequent references are to this edition and will be cited in the text
2. See, for example. Chapter 6 of Subramani, South Pacific Literature, Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, 1992
3. Evelyn Ellerman, "Intertextuality in the Fiction of Camus and Wendt", Comparative Literature East and West, ed. Cornelia N. Moore and Raymond A. Moody, Hawaii: University of Hawaii East-West Centre, 1989, pp. 43-50
4. Helen Tiffin, " 'You Can't Go Home Again': The Colonial Dilemma in the Work of Albert Wendt", Meanjin 37,1 (1978), 119-26
5. John and Rose Marie Beston, "An Interview with Albert Wendt", World Literature Written in English, 16,1 (1977), 151-62
6. and Russell Soaba, "Albert Wendt, Existential Writer", Ondobondo 3 (1983-84), 37-41
7. Margery Fee, "Why CK. Stead Didn't Like Keri Hulme's the bone people: Who Can Write as Other?", Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada, 1 (1989), 22
8. Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture, London and New York: Routledge, 1994, p. 214
9. In White Mythologies, Robert Young also discusses the connection between the Algerian War and modern French theory, London: Routledge, 1990; see Chapters 1 and 3 in particular
10. Jean-Paul Sartre, Introduction to Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967, p. 23
11. Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism, trans. Philip Mairet, London: Methuen, 1980
12. Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, trans. Justin O'Brien, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975. Subsequent references are to this edition and will be cited in the text
13. Albert Camus, L'Étranger, trans. Stuart Gilbert, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946
14. Albert Wendt, "Discovering the Outsider", Camus's L'Étranger: Fifty Years On, ed. Adele King, London: MacMillan, 1992, p. 49. Subsequent references are to this edition and will be cited in the text
15. Germaine Brée, Camus and Sartre: Crisis and Commitment, New York: Delta, 1972, p. 51
16. "Discovering the Outsider", p. 49
17. Albert Wendt, Sons for the Return Home, Auckland: Longman Paul, 1973
18. "Discovering the Outsider", p. 50
19. Malama Meleisea, Lagaga: A Short History of Western Samoa, Suva: University of the South Pacific, 1987, p. 168
20. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils, trans. David Magarshack, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1953
21. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Diary of a Writer, 2 vols., trans. Boris Brasol, New York: Scribner, 1949
22. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils, pp. 612-13
23. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot, trans. David Magarshack, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1955, p. 587
24. See, for example, p. 407, where Galupo quotes the following passage: "To feel one's attachment to a certain region, one's love for a certain group of men, to know that there is always a spot where one's heart will feel at peace - these are many certainties for a single human life. And yet this is not enough. But at certain moments everything yearns for that spiritual home". The quotation is from Camus's essay "Summer in Algiers"; see Albert Camus: Selected Essays and Notebooks, ed. and trans. Philip Thody, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970, p. 89
25. Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, trans. Hazel Barnes, London: Methuen, 1969
26. Existentialism and Humanism, p. 48
27. Irving M. Zeitlin, Nietzsche: A Re-Examination, Cambridge: Polity, 1994, pp. 165-6
28. Albert Wendt, "The Angry Young Men of Oceania", Unesco Courier, February 1976, pp. 8, 11
29. Albert Wendt, Black Rainbow, Auckland: Penguin, 1992
30. The Māori word for individuals (in this case, New Zealanders) of European descent
31. Albert Wendt, Ola Auckland: Penguin, 1991
32. The term appears in Abdul R. JanMohamed's "Worldliness-Without- World, Homelessness-As-Home: Toward a Definition of the Specular Border Intellectual", Edward Said: A Critical Reader, ed. Michael Sprinker, London: Blackwell, 1992, pp. 98-120
33. Albert Wendt, "Don't Generalise about the South Pacific", Aid Research Newsletter, September 1981, p. 5