Books
BOOKS BY FILM SUBJECT JEAN BISH
Bells and Shadows
By J. Maurine Bish
Bells and Shadows is a historical psychological novel that interweaves the stories of a father and a daughter in British Colonial Fiji at two different points in time. G.H. Lee is a settler who has come to the South Pacific to make his fortune, with little feeling for indigenous Fijians, indentured Indian workers, or even his own daughter. His journal of risk, romance, and cruelty alternates with chapters told from the point of view of his daughter decades later, who has rebelled against her father’s colonial worldview and has paid a steep emotional price that she struggles to overcome.
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Short Stories
By J. Maurine Bish
This collection features the short stories of J. Maurine Bish, who was born to a British colonial family in Fiji in 1925, published her first story in 1953, and who continues to write from her home in San Francisco today. Her fiction often features the South Pacific settings of her youth.
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BOOKS BY ACADEMICS AND OTHERS INTERVIEWED IN FILM
Culture Contact in the Pacific: Essays on Contact, Encounter and Response by Max Quanchi
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Chalo Jahaji: On a Journey through indenture in Fiji by Brij V. Lal
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The Violence Of Indenture In Fiji By Naidu, Vijay
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Disturbing History: Resistance in Early Colonial Fiji by Robert Nicole
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Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa Lawson, Stephanie (1996)
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Small business: A study of a Fijian family : the Mucunabitu Iron Works Contractor Cooperative Society Limited by Ropate R Qalo|
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Fiji: A Place Called Home by Daryl Tarte
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