The Tahitian is not a big talker. This is what Titaua Peu writes. But behind this perhaps cultural Tahitian silence, there is a mountain biding its time. Mountain of anger and shame facing the ocean.
That said, it is in troubled waters that the unsaid and the taboos of a colonial society rage, marked by glaring inequalities and the still vivid aftermath of the nuclear tests carried out in Polynesia between 1966 and 1996. To put an end to the vahinized prejudices, Titaua Little takes the pen for 2 punch novels Mutisms & pina (Vent Islands Editions). It is one of the rare Tahitian voices to be heard and to tell of its country and its legends, its people, its unhappiness and its chaotic beauty. So if you have a ticket for the turquoise waters of Papeete, you might as well say that Titaua Peu is a preventer from sunbathing in circles.
The musical choices of Titua Peu
Billie Holiday- Love me or leave me
Emma Terangi- Penei ite
Nina Simone- Sinnerman