{"id":40962,"date":"2015-04-24T13:35:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T13:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40962"},"modified":"2015-04-24T13:35:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T13:35:30","slug":"fast-talking-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40962","title":{"rendered":"Fast Talking PI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcpublications.co.uk\/books\/selina-tusitala--marsh-fast-talking-pi-436\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Fast Talking PI<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcpublications.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Arc Publications<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 2012<br \/>\n80 pages<br \/>\n216 x 138 mm (paperback), 223 x 145 mm (hardback)<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1904614-35-7<br \/>\nHardback ISBN: 978-1904614-77-7<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.auckland.ac.nz\/people\/scro024\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Selina Tusitala Marsh<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Lecturer of English Drama and Writing Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcpublications.co.uk\/books\/selina-tusitala--marsh-fast-talking-pi-436\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arcpublications.co.uk\/images\/covers\/Marsh_front_cover_15_Feb_12_sm.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Fast Talking PI<\/em> (pronounced pee-eye) reflects the poet&#8217;s focus on issues affecting Pacific communities in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Zealand\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a>, and indigenous peoples around the world including the challenges and triumphs of being <em>afakasi<\/em> [mixed race]. The book is structured in three sections, <em>Tusitala<\/em> (personal), <em>Talkback<\/em> (political and historical) and <em>Fast Talking PIs<\/em> (dialogue). She writes as a calabash breaker, smashing stereotypes and challenging historic injustices; also exploring the idea of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calabash\" target=\"_blank\">calabash<\/a> as the honoured vessel for identity and story. Her aesthetics and indigenous politics meld marvellously together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>List of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TUSITALA\n<ul>\n<li>Googling Tusitala<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcpublications.co.uk\/content\/500\" target=\"_blank\">Not Another Nafanua Poem<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Afakasi<\/li>\n<li>Calabash Breakers<\/li>\n<li>Hone Said<\/li>\n<li>Things on Thursdays<\/li>\n<li>Song for Terry<\/li>\n<li>Langston&#8217;s Mother<\/li>\n<li>Cardboard Crowns<\/li>\n<li>The Sum of Mum<\/li>\n<li>Wild Horses<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcpublications.co.uk\/content\/501\" target=\"_blank\">Three to Four<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Le Amataga<\/li>\n<li>The Beginning<\/li>\n<li>Spare the Rod<\/li>\n<li>A Samoan Star-chant for Matariki<\/li>\n<li>Circle of Stones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>TALKBACK\n<ul>\n<li>Guys like Gauguin<\/li>\n<li>Nails for Sex<\/li>\n<li>Mutiny on Pitcairn<\/li>\n<li>Two Nudes on a Tahitian Beach, 1894<\/li>\n<li>Venus in Transit<\/li>\n<li>Realpolitik<\/li>\n<li>Contact 101<\/li>\n<li>Has the whole tribe come out from England?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s Sarong With This?<\/li>\n<li>The Curator<\/li>\n<li>Hawai&#8217;i: Prelude to a Journey<\/li>\n<li>Touring Hawaii and Its People<\/li>\n<li>Alice&#8217;s Billboard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>FAST TALKING PIS\n<ul>\n<li>Fast Talkin&#8217; PI<\/li>\n<li>Acronym<\/li>\n<li>Outcast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Acknowledgements<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Notes<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Biographical Note<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Talking PI Arc Publications July 2012 80 pages 216 x 138 mm (paperback), 223 x 145 mm (hardback) Paperback ISBN: 978-1904614-35-7 Hardback ISBN: 978-1904614-77-7 Selina Tusitala Marsh, Senior Lecturer of English Drama and Writing Studies University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Fast Talking PI (pronounced pee-eye) reflects the poet&#8217;s focus on issues affecting Pacific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,4405,1617],"tags":[19973,1000,19972],"class_list":["post-40962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-oceania","category-poetry-books","tag-arc-publications","tag-new-zealand","tag-selina-tusitala-marsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}