Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater : A Writer’s Early Life (BWB Texts)

Albert Wendt

In this BWB Text, Manualaivao Albert Wendt offers his readers a short but tantalising tour of his early life – and the influences that shaped him as a novelist and poet.   The context and contours, the sights and sounds, the myths and memories of his Samoan upbringing, in the swampy Vaipe of Apia’s back...