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Malo Tupou : an oral
history / Tupou Posesi Fanua, as told to Lois Wimberg Webster.
- Auckland : Pasifika press, 1996. - XIX-175 p.-[8] p. of pl. :
ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN 0-908597-26-6
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Les îles Tonga, isolées
géographiquement au centre du Pacifique, fières
de leur indépendance politique, sont aussi réputées
vivre hors du temps …
Tupou Posesi Fanua y est née
en 1913 ; elle raconte les vingt premières années
de sa vie — twenty years a growing … à
Nuku'alofa : « Anything I wanted to do, I
did. Anything I wanted, I got … It's no hard to see that by
the tender age of five I was well on the way to becoming the
self-willed, spoiled brat that I still am today ».
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DESCRIPTION : Born in Tonga in 1913, Tupou was an
only child and, in her own words, « a spoiled brat ».
At the age of 81, Tupou recounted her memories of her first twenty-one
years to Lois Webster. Set in Nuku'alofa and involving several
schools, a variety of overprotective relatives an odd romance,
this is a fine, rambunctious life from an excellent storyteller
with annotations by oral historian Lois Webster.
The result is a compelling oral
history of early twentieth century Tonga from a woman's perspective.
Lois Webster has skillfully annotated verbatim transcripts of
her taped interviews with Tupou and supplemented the text with
maps and photographs. Above all, it is the voice and character
of Tupou, this strong Tongan woman, that brings vigour and humour
to a profound book.
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| mise-à-jour : 9 février 2006 |
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