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A Papua New Guinea Sojourn - More Pleasures of Exile (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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A Papua New Guinea Sojourn - More Pleasures of Exile (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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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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