An author from this region wrote a picaresque novel in which the protagonist desperately searches for a cure for his butt pain called Kisses in the Nederends. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this transnational region whose most acclaimed author, Albert Wendt, wrote The Leaves of the Banyan Tree and Black Rainbow.
ANSWER: South Pacific Islands [accept Polynesia; accept Samoa; accept Tonga; prompt on Oceania] (Kisses in the Nederends is by Tongan author Epeli Hau’ofa. Albert Wendt is from Samoa.)
[10m] A University Press based in this country has published Pacific literature like Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl’s (“NEW-bull’s”) Island Plays and the poems of Wayne Kaumualii Westlake. Asian-Pacific writers Cathy Song and Hanya Yanagihara were born in this country.
ANSWER: United States [or United States of America; or USA; accept America]
[10e] The University of Hawaii’s Talanoa literature series has also published fiction by Witi Ihimaera (“WIT-ee ee-hee-MY-ruh”) and Patricia Grace, two members of this Indigenous ethnic group of New Zealand.
ANSWER: Māori
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