Michou Chaze
Michou Chaze (born 1950) is a Tahitian author writing in "Tahitian French", a localized variation of French.[1] She is also known as Rai Chaze or Rai a Mai.[2]
The daughter of a French father and Polynesian mother, she was born in Papeete. She was educated at the Lycée Paul Gauguin and then spent eleven years studying and then working as a fashion photographer in the United States but returned to her native island.[3] In her writing, she rejects both colonial oppression and cultural nationalism.[1][4]
Her stories have also appeared in Tahiti Pacifique.[3]
Selected works
[edit]- Vai la rivière au ciel sans nuages short stories (1990)
- Toriri poetry (2000)
- Contes Tahitiens children's stories (2009)
- Avant la saison des pluies novel (2010)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Lal, Brij V; Fortune, Kate (2000). The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. p. 529. ISBN 082482265X.
- ^ "Contributors". Project Muse.
- ^ a b c "Michou Chaze". Île en île (in French).
- ^ a b ""Avant la saison des pluies" le nouveau roman de Rai Chaze sort aux "Editions Présumées"". Tahiti Infos (in French).
