Edited by Eric Waddell, Vijay Naidu, & Claire Sutter
Year of publication: 2024
Publisher/s: Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies and University of the South Pacific
Price (Hard copy): NZ$ 50 excluding shipping (Order @ Pacific Shop)
Table of Contents
Foreword
Inserts
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Eric Waddell, Vijay Naidu & Claire Slatter
Navigating between history, myth and fiction
Eric Waddell
Born in Papua: Epeli’s early childhood on Misima Island
Eric Waddell
A Methodist education in Tonga and Fiji
Eric Waddell
Entering the West: Undergraduate studies at the University of New England
Eric Waddell
Discovering anthropology, Trinidad… and V.S. Naipaul
Eric Waddell
Pursuing an education at UPNG and the ANU
Eric Waddell
Epeli and I: Correspondence 1975 – 1982
Michael W. Young
A brush with fame
Grant McCall
The realisation of loss: Seven years in Tonga
Eric Waddell
The Tongan Epeli
Lopeti Senituli
Choosing to write “something as flimsy as a novel”
Eric Waddell
The significance of Hawaiʻi
Eric Waddell
Navigating troubled waters
Vijay Naidu
Under the biggest mango tree in the galaxy
Vijay Naidu
Barbara and Epeli
Seona Smiles
Epeli and Tere: A very special relationship
Claire Slatter
My good mate Epeli
Stephen Vete
Red wine, red waves, red politics: A personal peep into Hau’ofa’s mind and life
Steve Ratuva
Epeli was a trickster of sorts: A conversation with Vilsoni Hereniko
Loto Malie: The Oceania Centre dream
Francis C. Koya Vakaʻuta
Loto Mafana: A pedagogy of care
Francis C. Koya Vakaʻuta
Being on Mount Olympus: Conversing with the Gods
Larry Thomas
Journeying on
Eric Waddell, Vijay Naidu & Claire Slatter
Traffic (for Epeli Hauʻofa, January 2009)
Alice Te Punga
Loto Mafana: A pedagogy of care
Francis C. Koya Vaka’uta
Being on Mount Olympus: Conversing with the Gods
Larry Thomas