Archives of December , 2005

Fiji- An overview of current developments re: Pacific Writing Forum/Niu Waves and new writing.

Friday, December 09, 2005

Pacific literature is young. It does not carry with it eons of a written literary tradition. In fact Pacific societies have no traditional written script for their languages, except as hieroglyphs and in forms or oral literature. As part of the unholy trinity of commerce,

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Filed under : EDITION

Who goes there? Strangers, borders and fear.

Friday, December 09, 2005

The present state of global tension locks in rights of movement between borders into increasingly smaller versions of a nation states. The definition of a nation-state being a moot point let us place, Australia, as an exemplary one, for the purpose of this discussion, where borders

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Freedom of Speech – A Perspective of Literature in Vietnam

Friday, December 09, 2005

It is clear that only without constraint of oppression or guidance, the writers, whatever be their social position, will then be able to maximize their creativeness to contribute to this collective painting of the society they live in.

Sadly, in several dictatorial countries such

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Body/Language: An Interview with Shen and Jonathan Wonham

Friday, December 09, 2005

This is the second part of a series of interviews about science and poetry in which I make further surprising discoveries.

http://ahappening.typepad.com/qarrtsiluni/2005/12/bodylanguage_an.html

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