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In this absorbing book -- part documentary, part travelogue -- West Indian writer and adventurer Archie Markham evokes in rich detail what it was like to be a Media Co-ordinator in the highlands of New Guinea for two years in the 1980s. Life is never dull: an eclipse of the sun, visits from the Pope and the Prince of Wales (`Pikinini man bilong misis Kwin'), negotiations with aggrieved warriors in the wake of politicaml emergency, along with the smaller day-to-day crises of cultural collision and surprise. There is an abundance of `local colour': the singsing, the mumu (steaming of food in the ground); journeys into the interior which recall the exploits of early explorers. Then there's the question of `identity': a black expatriate representing England and a superstate called The World Bank. A writer. A VSO volunteer. A man denying to a crowd at Warbag High School on the Queen's Official Birthday that he is the Queen of England. Meditating on his role as cultural arbiter in `remote' Enga Province, Markham inevitably recalls in his title George Lamming's 1960 classic, The Pleasures of Exile: what does this global search for relevance tell us about the possibilities of `grounding' at home?

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Pełny tytuł: Papua New Guinea Sojourn
• Podtytuł: More Pleasures of Exile
• Autor: E. A. Markham
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 240
• EAN: 9781857543285
• ISBN: 1857543289
• ID: 05117515
• Wydawca: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Waga: 400 g
• Wymiary: 220 × 135 × 23 mm
• Data wydania: 26. February 1998

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